help with monosyllabic script
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:51 pm
Hi all!
I am trying to create a font for a specific alphabet. The thing is, it is monosyllabic, and the characters just don't follow each other always the same way
More precisely:
there are 4 families of consonants (say family 1, 2, 3, 4), and of course vowels.
More precisely, vowels exist in 6 forms.
1 to combine with each consonant family, one as stand-alone, and one when following another vowel
Things are even a little more complicated:
family 1 is the "regular form" (left->right), thus vowels should take form 1, when combined with these.
family2 is obtained from a 180° rotation (vowels in form 2 follow the same rule).
then family 3 is the x-axis symmetric of family 1, and finaly family 4 its rotation (180°).
m, n, r, l change shapes when preceding/following other consonants
Even more precisions: say you want to write the word: "Kola".
In this alphabet, it would be written in the form of the syllabs: Ko+la.
where:
->ko= a ligature of k+o (left->right)
->la= a ligature of l + a (right->left).
nb: after a vowel, there must be a space, since the language consists with syllabs/sounds only.
Besides are special characters (which represent sounds, like: "sh"; "kt", etc..., and consonantic groups, such as mb, or ng, which are specific characters/glyphs too)
So the big question is, how am I supposed to do that?
Where do I specify Anchoring points? According to you, what would be the most appropriate character encoding?
I am totally new to encoding systems, so I don't know much about it, or about font generation.
Other question: I heard that there was a way to create a font from my hand-writting.
My question is: would the program be able to correctly interpret it?
If anybody would have time to help me with this, that would be great!! And would shure save me some times...
I am trying to create a font for a specific alphabet. The thing is, it is monosyllabic, and the characters just don't follow each other always the same way
More precisely:
there are 4 families of consonants (say family 1, 2, 3, 4), and of course vowels.
More precisely, vowels exist in 6 forms.
1 to combine with each consonant family, one as stand-alone, and one when following another vowel
Things are even a little more complicated:
family 1 is the "regular form" (left->right), thus vowels should take form 1, when combined with these.
family2 is obtained from a 180° rotation (vowels in form 2 follow the same rule).
then family 3 is the x-axis symmetric of family 1, and finaly family 4 its rotation (180°).
m, n, r, l change shapes when preceding/following other consonants
Even more precisions: say you want to write the word: "Kola".
In this alphabet, it would be written in the form of the syllabs: Ko+la.
where:
->ko= a ligature of k+o (left->right)
->la= a ligature of l + a (right->left).
nb: after a vowel, there must be a space, since the language consists with syllabs/sounds only.
Besides are special characters (which represent sounds, like: "sh"; "kt", etc..., and consonantic groups, such as mb, or ng, which are specific characters/glyphs too)
So the big question is, how am I supposed to do that?
Where do I specify Anchoring points? According to you, what would be the most appropriate character encoding?
I am totally new to encoding systems, so I don't know much about it, or about font generation.
Other question: I heard that there was a way to create a font from my hand-writting.
My question is: would the program be able to correctly interpret it?
If anybody would have time to help me with this, that would be great!! And would shure save me some times...