Re: Second report on Koni'

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:44:13PM +0100, Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work wrote:
> Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> > Nice. I like it. Now I've gotta find out how to produce barred b and
> > barred t in LaTeX. :-)
>
> You're telling me you don't know? They're a breeze in Word,
> let me tell you. ;)
Actually, I just found out that TIPA ships with pre-made, pre-shone
versions of barred b, barred l, etc.. Plus, it gives you a way of making
*any* barred letter, with full control over the length of the bar, the
vertical position of the bar, and the kerning adjustments to be made to
the resulting letter. How's that for flexibility? :-)

> One problem though. The ALT-combinations of the Thryomanes font we're
> using are working just fint here at work. However, when I try them at
> home they're not working at all. Why is that? Does it have anything to
> do with me running Windows 2000 at work and Windows 97 at home? The
> characters are all there at home, it's just that I have to choose
> "insert -> symbol"  every time I need a barred b or barred t. That's
> pretty annoying.
Having not done anything serious with Windows for at least 4 years, I'm
leaving it up to the Windozers on the list to answer that. ;-)

[snip]
> > Aww, I'm flattered. :-) I see that you've even chosen /w/ in the ASCII
> > transcription, as I have. Do you have any sample Koni' text? I'd love to
> > transcribe them into LaTeX just to see how it looks.
>
> AFAIK, Jessica is coming up with a bunch of words right this minute
> to have something to work with when she's doing the grammar. Surely
> there will be something to show you this week.
Cool.

[snip]
> They are. But what I think is worse is that it's so odd to have it
> all by itself. There are no other aspirated fricatives. Having it
> contrasting with /B/ would be perfect, but nooo, Jessica has to have
> it her own way... ;) I guess that's what makes it a personal conlang
> and not a plain vanilla naturalistic conlang, which are so common
> on the list these days.
[snip]

Ah, another Ebisedian-wannabe I see.
*runs and hides* ;-)


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