tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 01 06:42:53 1996
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Re: KLI Fonts
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLI Fonts
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 06:42:53 -0700
> Including some punctuation would very probably be a good idea, too; we
> have canon (romanized) punctuation in TKW. We'd either have to just
> use the standard punctuation symbols or invent our own pseudo-pIqaD
> equivalents. Didn't some of the Skybox cards have triangles in the
> pIqaD text as punctuation marks? Maybe "down" for a comma, "up" for a
> semicolon, "left" and "right" for quotation marks? Perhaps a circle
> for a colon, a square for a full stop, and a double-diamond for an
> exclamation point? I'm getting pretty far afield, never mind...
& Careful. Just because Okrand uses punctuation in the Romanized writings does
& not mean that Klingons necessarily use it in pIqaD...
I'm a bit uncomfortable with adding punctuation to the fonts. While I might be
misremembering, I don't recall ever seeing anything that might appear to be
punctuation on any Okuda graphics from TNG or DSN. I am less inclined to treat
the Skybox cards as canonical examples, especially when we are already
disregarding their use of the glyphs in the examples themselves.
> I would be very happy to have a "convenience" font with the pIqaD
> mapping but roman glyphs. For example, if you typed "X", a single
> character that is shaped "tlh" would show up on the screen.
This is an interesting idea, and very easily done.
Lawrence
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