On 17 May 2012, at 18:35, Julian Bradfield wrote: > It took me a little while, but I finally managed to put this to an > Inuktitut speaker (Leena Evic of the Pirurvik Centre in Iqaluit, Nunavut).
I had a response from a number of school curriculum developers in Nunavut. > Her response was that the rotated sidebars on the newsletter cited > earlier are entirely readable (in fact, I had to explain how there > could possibly be a problem), and that the vertical layout advocated > by Michael is "not common, and in most cases not ideal." My respondants did not address this issue. They understood what was asked, and gave a clear response. > It would thus appear that Michael is alone in finding rotated > syllabics hard to read. > He might have more luck with a language that doesn't use finals or > other raised letters, but off-hand I can't find one. Remarkable. The answer I received was that in vertical text, most of the group preferred (d) in the "Aamuu"/"Atim" example (with the final bound to its syllable) though some of them also found (b) acceptable (with the final below the syllable) as long as the ᒻ character is smaller than the others. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
