Re: Kijeb sandhi

BP Jonsson wrote:
> BTW I'm at a loss how to express the various levels of
> development in plain text. On the wiki I use italics for
> Kijeb and bold face for the daughter languages. Using *word*
> for the daughter languages and _word_ for Kijeb kind of
> feels wrong, since it is Kijeb which is intrafictionally
> largely reconstructed, since its writing system is
> defective, and now Pre-Kijeb enters the picture! Maybe I
> should change the notation to:
>
> :                 plaintext wiki
> :
> :  daughters     _word_ bold
> :   Kijeb   *word italics
> :   attested K.   _WORD_    SMALL-CAPS
> :   reconstr. K.    **word *italics
> :   Pre-Kijeb     **word** **italics
>
Not sure I understand the exact sequencing, but how about using labels:
K word (attested Kijeb, if that level exist)
PK proto-Kijeb   PK *word
Pre-K or maybe UrK for pre-Kijeb   Pre/UrK *word
A,B,C for various daughters, A word, B word etc. (if you need reconstructed
stages for A,B,C, then you could have "PA *word > A word", maybe even "PAB
*word > A word1, B word2" etc. etc.
Any intermediate hypothetical stages, use **, perhaps "pre-A **word > A
word"

That IMO would eliminate some of the typographical fussiness, and make the
various levels clearer. Then use italics just for glosses.