Many thanks to Julian and Michael for your investigation!
Julian, when you contact with Leena in next time, please ask
her whether she had ever seen something like a syllabic version
of
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/paystation.png
Regards,
mpsuzuki
Michael Everson wrote:
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/
