Re: Kuraw Update!

romilly@egl.net writes:
>Hi Barry:  It's really beautiful, reminiscent also of Old Javanese, Modern
>Balinese, of course, since they're also brahmi-derived.
Thanks! I looked at it and thought "looks a lot like javanese/balinese!"

Actually Kuraw isn't brahmi derived, but i could lie :) and say it is (who
would know?)
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>I have some technical questions:
>--did you use a font program of any sort to create the glyphs, or are they
>hand-made bitmaps?  Is it installed ~ can you type with it?
They are hand made bitmaps. I'm too poor to afford a good program to
actually create the font for it (since it would have to be created like an
Indic script). Unless some commercial program has a free trial that i can
use that will do that.

It took me a while to create it, but it would have taken me longer if I
had used much more rounded glyph shapes.
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>--how do you do the compound vowel symbols?  e.g. the _o_ and _aw_.
The compound vowel diacritics are simple, since obviously it's just a
bitmap. Not sure how i'd tackle it in a font program.
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>--how would you type a syllable like ...ráw? (i.e. what sequence of
>keystrokes--- I suspect it would be r-accent-aw.)
Typically, and i'm not sure if the font program can do this, but you'd
type r (considering having the simple r keystroke for instance, as the
cons + inherent a glyph. Or maybe r + a), + w. If the program can
accomplish it, it should put the right diacritics for /au/ instead of ra +
w
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>I'm having similar problems with my Gwr script (rough version at
>http://cinduworld.tripod.com/gwr_script.htm  (there's an underline in
>gwr_script))
>I'll have to post some of what I've fontified-- there have been a few
>changes: post-cons. /y, w/ are now tentatively subscripts like the vowel
>symbols rather than tags on the end of the cons. bar (to avoid having to
>make 3 separate symbols for most consonants...,  and I haven't decided
>about
>the tone marks-- I think they'll end up more like accent marks that
>ideally
>should sit above the bar of the consonant symbol.  But so far I have a
>problem with sequencing.

It's an interesting script. Ahh these non standard scripts that make use
of many diacritics ;)

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>[ Confession-- the unauthorized version of Font Creator Program I've got
>is
>not functioning as well as it might....plus I don't totally understand
>font
>creating in the first place......:-(  so hope this makes sense to you.]
>
Made perfect sense. I remember it being a task to figure out how to do
allt he diacritics in Fontlab when i had it for the free trial. But i
didn't understand it well enough to do a proper non-alphabetic script. I
think wehave Corel here at school. I should invest time in trying to
figure out how to do a font on that program!

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