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

--- Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:

> ----- 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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>
> Good idea! I'm making a few such fonts right now.
>
> However There's a problem with the Tinker Toy Font.
> You wrote: "The space bar advances the cursor two
> grid positions without
> drawing any segments, and would normally be used
> instead of "a" at the end
> of a glpyh." If you add a space after each glyph,
> the words would be cut
> anywhere when they appear at the end of a line,
> which is not very practical.
> IMO it would be better to add one or two "a" after
> each glyph and a space
> only at the end of a word, except when the word is
> followed by a punctuation
> mark (in this case the space would be added after
> the punctuation).
That's a very good point, and something I hadn't taken
into consideration!

>
> About the ThinkerFont, I think that 9 cells high
> glyphs are not convenient
> for a script I'm working on and which has ascenders,
> descenders, diacritics
> above and diacritics below. If you accept to use the
> capital letters, the
> small letters and the digits, you'll have a total of
> 26 + 26 + 10 = 62
> strokes, which is sufficient for 15 cells high
> glyphs.
Another great idea. I was thinking of writing a
computer program to display the glyphs as a bitmap
picture from text typed into a separate window. I
could use such a program as a testbed for various
ideas on how best to assign the segments. I'm going to
work on it this weekend and I'll post here as soon as
it is done and available for anyone else who would
like to play with the idea.

--gary