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Re: Glyphica Arcana Page

From:Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 22:42
Jim Henry wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...> wrote: >>Aidan Grey wrote: >> >>>It look scool, but there really isn't enough explanation of how the >>>glyphs work for me to make heads or tails of what's going on. >> >>What do you mean by "how the glyphs work?" > >>What do you think should be in this section? > > You say that glyphs are composed from symbols, and then > you give examples of complete glyphs, but don't explain > how they are composed from their component symbols. > It would help to take one or two of the simpler glyphs like "Explore" > and explain step-by-step how it is composed -- maybe > one example from the common system and one from > the arcane system.
I'm not sure I understand. How does this differ from saying "words are composed of letters in the following pattern . . ."? What more information do you need?
> You might also break down the "2005" > number example and show which component symbols > are which digits, perhaps with an image map like the ones > you used for glosses on the Babel text.
Will work on this tonight. -- Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/myths/

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