--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 15:08 +0000 2005-08-21, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> > > >I am going to ask for a bit of time here. Some synbols,

about six were

> > > >completely meaningless to me. I also need time to adjust to

all the

> > > >rotations and flips, and check Dalby's 1849 list.
> > >
> > > I'll type it out myself then.
> >
> >How were you two thinking Suzanne would type it out? SIL Vai and

some

> >form of Rich Text, e.g. Word or HTML?
>
> If she had given me the text MA SI LEE SI NI KE YA KPOO LOO etc.

it

> would have been faster for me to type it in for my analysis.

So sorry. I was trying to maintain for myself the plosive -
implosive contrast in some way that was comprehensible to those who
don't have the VUP. I also wonder what the Vai SIL keyboard uses,
surely some other roman orthography.

Suzanne

>
> There are six or seven problematic characters as regards their
> identification, it seems to me.
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com