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Re: Tone Marks

From:Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 8:13
>Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:26:15 -0800 >From: Jim Grossmann <steven@...> >Subject: Tone Marks > >I'm offering this post in case anyone else is struggling with tone marks.
I am very much. I have a language with two register tones, just like you. I dislike using numbers, so I used the acute accent ` to indicate low tone, high one being not marked. It works, but still I am looking for more elegant solutions. <snip>
>However, with tens of pages in >Word, I've decided to come up with my own tone marking scheme. It's not >really phonetic: the tone marks don't mark vowel letters. But this >system has two virtues: it requires no special characters, and presents the >reader with more visual variety than the accent marks I used before.
I like your system: just three symbols to over all situations
>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.
Lately I was looking into my notes of Papiamentu. Papiamentu has a distinct low tone in (especially) verbs. Since this is not written or marked in any way in the official orthography, I wrote a small dot under the vowel having low tone. It still looks good, so I am going to try this with my language. Unfortunately there are no fonts making this possible. I asked Boudewijn to create a font for me with vowels having a dot below. As soon as I have results, I'll show you. Rob