Re: Kioshu

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