Re: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph, or rune

On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:39 PM CEST, Carsten Becker wrote:

> In Shannon Gary ang matahaniyà:
>
> > --- Jean-François Colson wrote:
> >
> >> Two Tinker Toy Fonts with two different sets of
> >> pieces are now available at
> >> http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/TinkerFont/.
> >> I'm making a TinkerFont font I'll add later.
> >>
> >> JF
> >
> > That's awesome! Thanks. I can't wait to play around
> > with with them.
> >
> > --gary
> >
>
> Um ... how would you type this in Tinker(toy)font:
>
>     /
>     |
>     |
> _   |
> / \  |
>  /  |
> / __|__
> \/  |  \
>  \  \__/
With one of the Tinker Toy Fonts, that would be rather difficult since they
have been designed for 3 or 4 cells high characters.
With the TinkerFont font which, BTW, has been updated a few minutes ago, you
could type W0wYK0HXZL0z0SefghijkzL0z20K600

>
> It's the letter for /ka/ in one of my alphabets. And worse,
> this script uses diacritics.
That's why I use 15 cells high characters instead of Gary's 9 cells: there
are 3 cells above and three cells below for diacritics.


>
> I haven't succeeded with this. Maybe it's just me not having
> yet completely understood the way the font is made.
That's quite simple: you divide each character in the adequate number of
columns.

For "Tinker Toy Font", you first type the vertical lines and the diagonals
using the mapping presented in Gary's page
http://fiziwig.com/tinkerfont.html. The cursor doesn't move with those
elements.
After you type the horizontal line(s) you want and here the cursor move to
the following column. If there are no horizontals to draw you can use the
lowercase "a" to move to the following column.

With "Tinker Toy Font 2" and "TinkerFont" you first type the column elements
in the order of your choice, including the horizontals, and you move the
cursor to the following column using the lowercase "x" for "Tinker Toy Font
2" and the digit "0" for "TinkerFont". Use Gary's mapping at
http://fiziwig.com/tinkerfont.html for "Tinker Font 2" and my mapping at
http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/TinkerFont/ for "TinkerFont".

And I've added another font where you don't draw lines, but only square dots
of three different sizes: "Tinker Dot Font". I think the mapping is well
explained at http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/TinkerFont/.

JF