Re: First post: presenting Classical Alyis

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:34:47 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:
>Unicode characters are abstract notions. What a particular glyph looks
>like is up to the font and the rendering engine.
>
>So from Unicode's point of view, one combining breve is enough. Where
>exactly it is positioned depends on whether the base letter is narrow
>or wide, tall or short, but again, that's a font and/or rendering
>engine issue -- so I'd look there rather than in Unicode for a
>solution.
I see. That thread on Phonetics has cleared things out for me.

Anyway, since the stress mark used in ánvalyis is nothing more than a stress
mark, it doesn't actually matter whether I use a caron or a circumflex or a
diaeresis or a macron or a grave accent — so I decided to use the acute
accent as the default for romanization, as it is less likely to have issues
than the breve.

Speaking of Ályis, a rough lexicon is now at
http://wordworld.wiki-site.com/index.php/Classical_Alyis_lexicon

As for the script, I may or may not upload the glyphs until Friday... I hope
to be able to.

Again, I'd like to hear your opinions...

Cheers,
- Abel.

--
“Hæ ástis lásteshte!”

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