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Re: Kioshu

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 12:08
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:56:32 -0600
Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

> From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...> > > > I'm looking at it right now. I would make one major change: offer the font > > as a .zip or just an uncompressed .ttf (unless it's a huge CJK-like font). > I > > couldn't run the self-executable (I use Windows XP), and people would > > probably be afraid to run .exe files anyway. > > Well that was pretty thoughtless on my part; you might use Macintosh or > Linux, and the font file types (as well as the self-executables) are > different for those OS's. (Mac OS X and Win 2k/XP do finally bridge that gap > with OpenType.)
At the same time, I know that on Linux and I think that on Mac it's possible to use ttf fonts. (On the other hand, I dimly recall all the pain I had to go through to get the ttf font server running on my linux machine - but now that it's done, and it works, I'm quite happy with people offering ttf files ;) ) IIRC, them self-executables can be opened just like zip files, presumeably in XP too. Under *nix, just 'unzip archive.exe', under Win* drag them into a winzip (or whatever) window, or else rename it to xyz.zip and then double click to yer heart's desire. ObConlang: I thought it would be fun to make my language avoid 'sing-song' rhymes, and to make it a grammatical error to use one ;). This now means that adjectives, although they agree in number/case with nouns, have to have a different set of inflectional endings, in case they occur close enough to the noun to 'clash'. So the absolute-case noun phrase (just the raw stems) "thool nautya" (a tall child) in the ergative case becomes, not the expected *"thooladh naudyadh" but rather "thoolen nautyadh". Also nouns in apposition (e.g. "Shinar land") then require that one of the nouns is declinded as an adjective. This has some interesting potential: I might allow adjs to be used as nouns, and nouns as adjectives, making one class of "substansives" - with the twist that (since my lang as yet has no grammatical gender distinction) the two original classes form two 'genders' of substansive, with however, *anti*- agreement rules.... this could get interesting. Stephen