Re: OT: Extensions of Script Teacher

Hi!

Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> >If you have wishes for more scripts, natlang or conlang, please email
> >me privately (or use the comment line on that site) -- I will count
> >the votes and try my best to service. :-)
> >
> This thing is awesome, Henrik.
Thank you! :-)

> I had a lot of fun playing with the Hangul version. Is there any way
> that the rest of us can help out with adding new scripts?
Thanks for offering help!

I was thinking whether I could define an easy generic interface,
especially for conlangs.  But so far, there are too many switches for
all the bells and whistles the program handles that I haven't found an
easy way.  Also, every TTF file seems to be a bit different (and some
crash my Linux tools...) so I have to make code page mappings and do
some experiments before it's right.  Currently, I think a description
of the writing system in question given in a human language I read is
still the fastest way for integration, and Unicode provides that quite
well for natscripts.

Anyway: as an initial interface (e.g. for conscripts), I can offer to
accept a .zip file with a collection of PNG files, each 197x197
pixels, and each with one glyph centered black (or dark colour) on
white or any colour on transparency (the PNG may be grey or true
colour or paletted, with or without antialiasing) plus a (plain text)
table of PNG file name to romanisation in either utf-8 or iso-8859-1,
well, that would be a very, very good start.  Alternatively, a TTF
file working on my machine under Linux (you can't know, but you can
try :-)) and a table with TTF glyph code(s) to romanisation would be
fine, too.

I can't promise anything, but it's an offer. :-)

**Henrik

PS: Yes, 197 pixels.

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