tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 11 06:43:23 1997
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 274
Thus spake you, [email protected]:
> From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: KLBC: pIqaD, Schoen vs. Okuda
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> have new improved kerning with it. The misnamed Okuda font will be
> called "Kronos" (and thanks go to Nick Nicholas for suggesting this name
> which nicely parallels the "Klinzhai" name)
Thanks gratefully acknowledged; but are you sure about this? I don't recall
making this suggestion...
> When the new disk comes out it will also have several stylized versions
> of the Kronos font, courtesy of Nick Nicholas.
To wit (I don't think I'm violating any confidentiality clauses here)
a gothic font, a 'calligraphic' font, a scrawled font, and a grid font
like that proposed in HolQeD (and monospaced, like Courier.)
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:59:12 -0400
> From: TPO <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: KLBC: pIqaD, Schoen vs. Okuda
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> The font available from the KLI merchant page can be hand written. I find
> that I have trouble convincing people of this. English can have fat, fancy
> letters; yet you can still hand write it. [email protected], I will attach
> to a private e-mail a hand written piece that I scanned. I find it quite
> easy. Anyone else want to see?
By way of comparison (although I by no means want to suggest myself as a
standard), see the samples piqad.gif and piqad3.gif on the KLI ftp site;
the scrawl font I made is something like this.
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:42:31 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: KLBC: pIqaD, Schoen vs. Okuda
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> The Interstellar Language School sells Glen Proechel's _pIqaD paQDI'norgh:
> An Alien Writing System Primer_. This is a 44 p. workbook teaching another
> handwriting method for writing and learning to read printed pIqaD. Contact
> Ken Traft (ILS Acting Director while Glen is in Russia) at [email protected]
> for price and availability.
Notwithstanding my opinions on Proechel, this sounds really interesting, and
I may have a look at it. I wonder if the ILS would object to the ILS
handwriting being font-ified and distributed with the KLI font pack. Ken?
--
http://daemon.apana.org.au/~opoudjis NICK NICHOLAS; LINGUISTICS,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE [email protected]
"Some of the English might say that the Irish orthography is very Irish.
Personally, I have a lot of respect for a people who can create something
so grotesque." -- Andrew Rosta