on second thought... (posted at Joshua Shinavier's request)

I wrote:

> Josh, I lost your address again (I've only got the swiss one at the
> moment and I understand that it won't reach you *there*) but I think
> more people will be interested, so I'm sending this to the list.
>
> I don't have a web page for the Valdyan language specifically,
> because much of it is in a state of overhaul (rethinking the
> description, not the language itself) and most of it is still in
> Dutch and in WordPerfect 5.1 (legacy from my DOS days, I'm firmly
> Linux now). I don't trust word processors to do my HTML for me, so I
> have to convert it to text and in effect rewrite it. I intend to post
> things to the conlang list as I complete them, though.
>
> I do have a web page with a large section about Valdyas;
and then Josh wrote:

[snip]

Hey, cool... you've evidently put a *lot* of work into this place (i.e.
Valdyas, and also the web page); you really could write a novel with this
material (I don't have anywhere near this much nailed down for the Aroel yet).
Bryn Asel, Hinyas Havin, Valdie Sali... I love your place names.  I'll have
to come back when I have some more time to read the stories.

I for one would be interested in your old pages for Valdyan, even if they're
in Dutch -- in fact especially if they're in Dutch :-)
I haven't used WordPerfect in years, but I imagine it must let you convert to
plain text format, which could be put up on the Net without any problems...


> The longest text I ever wrote in Valdyan is the story of Grandpa and
> the Dragon, but I haven't had time to translate it into English yet
> (it's now in Valdyan and Dutch).
Upload it!  Is it digitalized already or do you have it only on paper?


> There's a Valdyan font in existence, but that's also being reworked
> (my husband's boss bought him a new font editor :-) When we get a
> scanner, I intend to do a scan of a page of manuscript of "Grandpa
> and the Dragon" and put that on the web page with the text.
I started on two fonts for Aroven, but I still need a font editor to convert
the images I scanned.  I've tried some of the shareware programs but they
didn't work on my system -- and of course Fontographer costs something like
$300 -- absurd, at least for someone who wants to make only a couple of fonts
just for the fun of it.  I might resort to a "warez" source I know of for
Fontographer...

Josh


Danoven pages:
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5555/ven.htm

P.s.: my "travelling" address is: vehreneld@usa.net
  I'll probably join the list again when I get back to Zurich next month.
  The Danoven pages haven't changed since I left except for a few HTML
  repairs; I've typed up a number of new chapters which should be appearing
  before too long along with a couple of older missing pages I haven't
  gotten around to finding a way to upload yet (I'm using a library computer
  in California right now, sans floppy drive).  I'll be browsing the archives
  now and then 'til I'm back on a "real" computer come the end of March.
  And I wrote a poem!  Yes, it's true, more or less the first poem I've
written
  since I *had* to write poetry in 8th grade, but this time in Aroven.
  It has five verses and a "Kalevala" sort of rhythm to it, about the wind
  and the clouds of course :-)