At 08:49 -0800 2002-03-19, Doug Ewell wrote: >What I mean is that for the majority of the scripts registered in >ConScript, glyphs are either not available or unreasonably hard to >access, because the ConScript registration depends on outside links that >have vanished or have been moved to obscure places.
Well it's just fun. We had a bit more spare time in 1997 when we started it. Also, finding scripts and fonts is one thing. Making a proposal and then asking for feedback from the author -- and getting it -- is another. Quite possibly much that is on the ConScript page should be deleted. >The main ConScript page explains carefully how to submit a script for >registration, and uses the existing Tengwar page as an example. In >particular, there is supposed to be a table of glyphs, typically in GIF >format, that can be displayed alongside the U+xxxx assignments. For >over half of the scripts, however, there is no table, but rather a link >to somebody's Web page where "further information" is supposed to be >available. Sigh. OK, we'll try to do some spring cleaning. >Herman Miller's site <http://www.io.com/~hmiller/> is an important case, >because so much of ConScript is occupied by his scripts. Miller is >listed as "a prolific creator of constructed languages spoken by >(imaginary) alien races as well as by humans." I had never heard of >him, but evidently he must be important. What seems to have happened is >that he has moved on from designing one "fictional universe," as he puts >it, to another, and almost all of his previously designed scripts have >been either removed from his page or moved to some obscure location that >I don't have the patience to hunt down. http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/KolagianWriting.html Fonts at ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/ >And there are no back-links to ConScript or U+xxxx code points for >his scripts, even if you can find them. You have to meander through >his little worlds of cute, lovable elves to find out anything about >the scripts. Bah. Mm. Well. >If all of the registered scripts had to have a table, like the one shown >in the Tengwar example, it would be easy to find the glyphs and learn >about the script, and maybe even design a font. But this is only true >for 27 percent of the registrations. I submitted my own registration >last year, following the Tengwar example diligently, but it was put on >hold because no TrueType font was available and so the script couldn't >be interchanged. It seems to me that this standard didn't apply to >Herman Miller's scripts or most of the others. Fonts are available for everything that has been REGISTERED I think. Everything else is just a proposal. >(Sorry, Michael, for airing my dirty laundry in public.) (Psst. You didn't finish commenting on the font you commissioned....) -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
