Re: Glyphica Arcana Page

Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:16:19 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
> <jeffwilson63@...> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if anyone has looked at my Glyphica Arcana page at
>> http://www.meanspc.com/~jeff_wilson63/myths/BabelTarot.html
>>
>> I haven't received any feedback from this list and comments are
>> definitely appreciated.
>
> Do you have an inclusive OR as well as an exlusive OR, i.e. a marker for
>
>     (A AND B) OR (A OR B)
Overlap the 'and' and 'or' conjunctions:

       A AND/OR B

It looks like I forgot to mention that markers are _intended_ to
be overlapped like this.  It's one of the design constraints that
I struggled with when I developed the different markers.

> I imagine it's a sememe found more often than some people would
> realise.  For instance, in
>
>     Do you have a lighter, or some matches?
>
> the answer would not be expected to be "No" if I had both a lighter and
> matches. There are other logical conjunctions which could potentially
> be  useful, I imagine especially so in magical texts, which I rather
> suspect  could become quite algorithmic in nature, given the right
> system of magic.
>
> Also, I'd recommend more, simpler examples. There's a lot of
> information  to take in at once there.
Any recommendations?  (The basic problem being that I need
sufficient "real-world" translations to both make sure that the
system won't fail unexpectedly and to figure out what sort of
translations are needed.)

> Also also, you could find yourself boxed into a corner if you didn't
> think out in advance very carefully what you wanted to write. That's a
> potential criticism of every 2D writing system with branching, though,
> so don't take it personally.
Well, this system can be laid out in one dimension if you want,
and there will be such an example eventually.  It's the
two-dimensional layouts where things are most likely to break
down though, and thus the ones I've been concentrating on.

--
Jefferson
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/myths/