Re: vertical conscripts (Re: KuJomu...)

 --- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote: > On
Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 12:38 , bnathyuw
> wrote:
>
> > you got any examples of your vertical ( or are
> they
> > diagonal or circular or something ) conscripts ?
> bac
> > is written vertically and i really like the effect
> (
> > http://www.geocities.com/bnathyuw/images/bac1.gif
> for
> > various forms of the script ) but it's a bloody
> > nuisance for creating fonts . . . ( as is the fact
>
> Here's Tasratal, which I stupidly didn't write
> vertically, but is more
> natural written vertically:
> http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/tasratal.phtml
>
i can see what you mean, but i don't think it looks
too bad vertical either . . . a bivalent script maybe,
a la chi/japa-nese

> Unfortunately, many of my files on Naracze (formerly
> Czevraqis) are nixed,
>   but the Rokugani Reformed Alphabet is written in
> much the same fashion.
> (It's for a Legend of the Five Rings
> campaign...y'all probably don't want
> to know...)  Naracze proper has letter-shapes
> derived from Korean and a
> more phonologically based vowel design.  :-)  OTOH,
> the RRA (based on a
> future "Japanese," or Rokugani) is a kludge from
> hiragana.  Fun to devise,
>   though, and it looks funky from a distance, though
> once you get close-in
> the hiragana derivatives are easy to spot.
>
> http://www.cityofveils.com/r3k/images/rokugani.jpg
>
funny that one . . . looking at it i get the
impression it really wants to tilt back by 90 degrees
and become a counter-intuitive nagari lookalike. i get
the impression the letter shapes might need eroding a
bit to make them easier to form, but that's my
esthetics rather than an objective judgment . . ..

bn

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