Re: Tone Marks

Jim Grossmann scripsit:

> I'm sure that others have thought of different ways to convey tone without
> using special characters.   I hope that all you others post too.
gua!spi, aka gua\spi, places the tone mark just before the syllable.
/ is a rising tone, \ is a falling tone (! is an alternative),
- is high tone, = is low tone, ^ is rising-falling tone, | some
what arbitrarily is falling-rising tone.  The inventor also uses
the same convention for asciiromanizing Mandarin.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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