... That's how I remember Mandarin tone numbering, too. -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 1, 2006 12:05 pm
143045
... Fontforge is said to do quite a decent job of autotracing (actually potrace does the tracing) TeX bitmap fonts, since these are so high resolution. I...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpjonsson@...
Nov 1, 2006 7:36 pm
143046
... Yeah, that is a great dictionary, and it illustrates the reason's why digital dictionaries are superior to print ones. I work as a translator, and I hardly...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpjonsson@...
Nov 1, 2006 7:37 pm
143047
Hi! ... Ah, interesting information, thanks! Will have a look at that. It's not for the Metapost project, though, since I used it instead of Metafont in...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 1, 2006 8:28 pm
143048
... One shouldn't discount the importance of a dictionary as a cultural artifact. Sure, an online dictionary is more cost-efficient, flexible and practical,...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Nov 1, 2006 8:54 pm
143049
I'm just curious: What would we do with my Añakrangota?? (which is of course modeled on a print dict.) http://cinduworld.tripod.com/anakrangota.htm Aside from...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Nov 1, 2006 9:01 pm
143050
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:43 PM ... Get it. It's very good and free of charge. To run FontForge under...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Nov 1, 2006 9:53 pm
143051
li [Santiago Matías Feldman] mi tulis la ... Almost any text editor/word processor could be used if you have the fonts. The hard part is getting the fonts...
li_sasxsek@...
Nov 2, 2006 12:06 am
143052
qaStaHvIS 2006-11-02, qon taliesin the storyteller ... Or, even shorter (but in English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%C3%85ge_Bringsv%C3%A6rd Cheers, -- ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 2, 2006 2:51 pm
143053
... Which still stopped as a linkable URL before the Ã…. Sigh. I weep for the state of international text on the web. :) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2006 2:52 pm
143054
... OT, just a reaction shot, but yuck. I really dislike the UTF-8-then-% encoding of non-Latin characters in URL strings, and wish the %uXXXX idea had caught...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2006 2:53 pm
143055
... Have you checked out Graphite? <http://scripts.sil.org/RenderingGraphite> While it's true you are practically limited to writing in WorldPad it's better...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpjonsson@...
Nov 2, 2006 3:09 pm
143056
... Well, if everyone would just use "real" letters, and stop trying to decorate them with ugly little dodads, it would all work fine ;-) </sarcasm> --gary...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 2, 2006 3:45 pm
143057
... Put another way: Dear doodads: Die! - A critic ;-) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2006 4:06 pm
143058
Shannon, what do you mean by _real_ letters? I like my somewhat Arabic-esque script!...
veritosproject@...
Nov 2, 2006 4:10 pm
143059
And Sai, with your NLF2DWS......
veritosproject@...
Nov 2, 2006 4:11 pm
143060
Reminds me of my little Roman letter modification...each vowel was an accent on the top or bottom of a consonant....
veritosproject@...
Nov 2, 2006 4:53 pm
143061
... Yes, but isn't it the case that some MF fonts can't be generated with MP, since they use MF functions not available in MP? ... Lest you reinvent the wheel:...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpjonsson@...
Nov 2, 2006 5:31 pm
143062
Hallo! An interesting way to organize a dictionary is to make a *thematic* one, in which the words are ordered by semantic fields, as the Great Zompist has...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Nov 2, 2006 7:51 pm
143063
Last posted: May 31st, 2002 ... Bonus Vocab from WordNet: This is randomly selected automatically, so in case it offends you or you disagree, please either...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 3, 2006 4:15 am
143064
Hej, From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpjonsson@...> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:59 PM ... Yes, I'm aware of its existance, but I'm waiting for a ...
Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Nov 3, 2006 6:22 pm
143065
Heh heh...for what it's worth: http://cinduworld.tripod.com/poems.htm...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Nov 3, 2006 10:38 pm
143066
Hi! ... That might be the case, yes. However, I explicitly generated Metapost files, not Metafont in this project. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Nov 3, 2006 11:12 pm
143067
Dear other conlangers, hereby I publish the english version of a grammar for my first auxiliary language XETA and hope on your comments. You are invited to...
Holger Ebermann
holger800@...
Nov 4, 2006 8:27 am
143068
... Indeed that is it (: Did he happen to say what his name meant or the characters used to write it? Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Nov 4, 2006 2:03 pm
143069
... Smells a bit like Esperanto :) Do verbs have an infinitive form? If not, how does Xeta handle situations where we'd use an infinitive in English? (For...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 4, 2006 4:49 pm
143070
... Is KH also acceptable? (That is, CXS /x/ or /X/.) ... From some of the examples on your site, it seems that what would be noun-noun sequences in English...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Nov 4, 2006 6:42 pm
143071
I've been wondering about how possession works in Ainu. From things I've read lately, I think I somewhat understand the system, but I feel there might be...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Nov 4, 2006 9:27 pm
143072
Hallo! ... I'd say so, too. ... Exactly. Tolkien's Elves are certainly within _Homo sapiens_, at most a subspecies. *And* his Elvish languages look so much ...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Nov 4, 2006 10:54 pm
143073
On Friday 03 November 2006 05:01, Henrik Theiling wrote: In Shaquelingua: 1. house = ktat [ktat] 2. wall = çeidiga [Ce"idiga] 3. door = yiklis [Hi.klis] 4....
