tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 16 17:29:41 1998
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Re: pIqaD question, and thanks to all
Ian Wilkinson wrote:
>
>
> > My next question pertains to the pIqaD font that I have downloaded. I
> can't
> > remember where I got it, but bascially, the capital letters look like
> those
> > found at www.kli.org/kli/pics/piqdemo.gif. I want to make sure that as I
> > translate, I am getting the case of the lettering correct. I need some
> > assurance that the lettering in that gif is the capital letters for
> pIqaD,
> > and that I should be using lowercase accordingly. Alas, I have no
> character
> > map for the lowercase pIaqD characters, so I can't be entirely sure that
> > what I'm looking at is correct. I have not been able to find one on the
> > www, either.
>
> If the font you are referring to is the KlingonTNG font then there is a way
> of converting the Klingon that is in English letters to the Klingon
> characters in this font. The Klingon characters have a symbol for "tlh"
> and "ng" so these need to be translated from English script into the
> correct character in Klingon script.
>
> I have written a very quick (read: only originally intended for my personal
> use) program to convert standard Klingon text into the characters used in
> this font. It will convert "tlh" and the other non-single character groups
> into the correct symbols and all of the other letters into the correct
> symbols. It does not yet do numbers. This will happen later. There is no
> user guide or help file and some of the menus don't work 100% so you will
> have to use it "as is"
> If you would like this program send me an e-mail at [email protected]
> (or [email protected]) and I will send you it.
>
> Ian Wilkinson
>
> ps,
> By Friday I might have it finished (ie "Save as" menu to work etc).
> Included will be the dll's and font file (maybe a help file if I can be
> bothered). Please say if you can not unzip Zip files. If this is the case
> I will send it as separate files.
> If you E-mail me by the end of Friday I will send it to you then, as I will
> be away from the net for about 3 weeks from Saturday I will not be able to
> send you a copy after Friday until about the 9th/10th of Jan. I live in
> England so end of Friday is 23:59 GMT.
I have a chart, if you'd like, of that font.
As follows:
all one letter characters are the same except:
Q is Q
q is K
ng is F
tlh is X
ch is C
gh is G
Hope I could help.