Re: text

Alf Gandson wrote:

> > I have divided the picture in little squares
> > (correct?)
>
> correct
>
> > and, perhaps, I have
> > detected a punctuation sign (a dot in the middle of
> > an empty square, right?),
>
> right
>
> > but I can't see any relationship between
> > the upper part of squares
> > and consonants, or the lower part of squares and
> > vowels.
>
> there is none

You cheater! :-)

> > How does it work?
>
> Sorry, I shouldn't have written "consonant and vowel
> upon each other", but rather "into each other".

You double cheater! :-)

> Syllable-onset consonants always cross the center of
> each square. Syllabic vowels never do so. They always
> fit in a rhomb which results by joining the central
> points of the four sides of each square. Consonant
> clusters in the onset are marked by points added
> anywhere in the square, consonant in the syllable coda
> occupy the boundary of the square (or are omitted as
> in many older Spanish texts), non-syllabic vowels have
> lines pointing towards the center of the square (as
> the consonants).

I though something like that, but then I got confused.

One of my assumptions was that syllable-final "-r" was the lower part of the
left-side: is that correct?

I also assumed that the dots within squares (apart the lonely one used for
punctuation) could be a sort of "virama", but I also assumed that it was an
accent.

> I notice, that attempt to catch shapes with words is
> far too complicated, I will have to put some picture
> on the web.

The Qalam list also has a pictures section for this:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/lst

> Sorry again for my imprecise formulation which made
> you search a wrong way.

Well, I will try again with the new information.

Ciao.
Marco