Re: Constructed vertical writing systems?

En réponse à Peter Clark :

>        First, there's a little side group over at Yahoo called LaTeX for
> Conlangers,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latex-for-conlangers/

>in which one of the group projects is the creation of a METAFONT tutorial (if
>you don't know what TeX/LaTeX is, we will be happy to disabuse you of your
>innocence. :)
LOL.

>  Christophe Grandsire is almost done with the first part,
>hurray, hurray.
Yep, working on it at the moment :) .

>  Several of us our quite eager to start creating our own fonts
>with something more elegant than TrueType.
It will come! ;))

>         In regards to your questions, some of the biggest challenges will
> probably be
>created by the very nature of your script. If your script has hundreds of
>letters (Sanskrit, Japanese, Chinese,etc), or marks vowels by the means of
>diacritics (Hebrew, Arabic, Tengwar), or has different initial, medial, and
>final forms (Arabic, Mongolian), you are going to start running into some
>problems.
Yep, too bad the first computer designers spoke a language using such a
boring script :((( .

>  Not to say that there aren't answers, since obviously all of the
>above mentioned languages have fonts, but expect to make some compromises.
There will be a chapter on that in the METAFONTtutorial, but eventually I
hope there will be a special tutorial for it, since it's more a problem to
solve with the combination LaTeX/METAFONT than with METAFONT alone. And the
METAFONTtutorial being an introduction to METAFONT, I cannot dwell into too
high matters ;)) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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