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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:00 PM
> Subject: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph, or rune
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>> Well, almost any.
>>
>> Returning to the list after an absence of a few
>> months, to share an idea I've toyed with off and on
>> for a couple of years: The idea that a single font
>> could be designed that could be used to display and
>> print a huge variety of alphabetic characters,
>> syllabaries, pictographs, runes, petroglyphs,
>> hieroglyphs, and squiggles.
>>
>> With such a "universal" font you could invent your own
>> writing system for you conlang and would not need to
>> create a font for it, because the "tinker toy font"
>> would have all the pieces you'd need to display your
>> unique writing system. PLUS, your web page, and other
>> conlanger's web pages, could display any conlang
>> writing system as long as the viewer had the single
>> universal Tinker Toy font.
>>
>> This one single font could display Roman, Greek,
>> Devanagari, Korean Hangul, etc. etc.
>>
>> The simplest version, for runes and crude pictographs
>> and alphabets is this one:
>>
http://fiziwig.com/tinkerfont.html
>>
>> A more complex, maybe even TOO complex version that
>> displays detailed characters is here:
>>
http://fiziwig.com/tinker.html
>>
>> I need to find a usable font making program so I can
>> try out the simple version and get a feel for how it
>> could be improved upon. Maybe the best solution lies
>> somewhere between the two extremes in the above two
>> links.
>>
>> --gary
>>
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