Re: Revised Zharranh page

BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 03:54 9.2.2004, John Cowan wrote:
> >  However, it's still uncertain whether
> >the current glottal stop character, which looks capital but is currently
> >called lower case, will be identified with either or both of these.
> >So we may add just one character or a new casing pair.
>
> What do you mean with "the current glottal stop character,
> which looks capital".  Should the lowercase then be x-height,
> or descending?  I have drawn my idea of an uppercase GS to
> <http://www.melroch.se/conlang/misc/glottalstop.gif>
>
> The glyph to the right is an ascending lowercase GS.
Don't you mean "to the left"?  Actually, in my fading memory, isn't there an
IPA "GS with bottom bar" for another sound in that area? I could be
mistaken, and realize your 'bottom bar' is just serifs.

Personally I liked the middle one as u.c. if we're trying to do a "Roman"
style. (If it's a question of a conscript, then u.c./l.c.  /?/ could be
anything.....)

In some typefaces, (e.g. as used in the journal "Language" and many books)
the GS is rather small and raised perhaps halfway above the line, and
doesn't look bad at all. Then one could use BPJ's (leftmost) ?-like symbol
for the u.c.

Another strategy, inspired by old works on Indonesian languages, might be to
use the little Arabic hamza(h?); it too was written above the line, but
would be quite distinctive if written on the line (sort of a backward c with
a tail)  Then BPJ's middle character would be a very appropriate u.c.

But of course these things aren't available in Unicode, which if I gather
correctly was Herman Miller's concern. (Sorry, haven't really been following
the discussion)