Re: Second report on Koni'

Teoh wrote:

> Thanks for your compliment. Though credit really should go to Knuth and
> Lamport, who designed TeX and LaTeX so wonderfully.
Okay then. Kudos to those two too. :)

> Very nice. I see that you've chosen to use double acute as a combination
> of acute with diaresis. Very nice idea. :-)
Yes, of all the ideas that people came up with on the
list, and the ones that me and Jessi came up with ourselves,
that was what she liked the best, and I must say I agree.

> 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. ;)

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.


> 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.

> I'm not much of a phonetician, so I really can't comment much on that. I
> do notice, though, that aspirated fricatives are quite unusual.
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.

Daniel Andreasson

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