Re: Transcription by Change of Font (was: Monocase type faces?)

Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:
>
> > Are there any serious reasons for designing a monocase face? (I'd say,
> > probably not.)
>
> Random case seems to have a certain attraction :(
>
> There have been hopes that one would be able to do transcription (at
> the visual level) simply by changing fonts. Has any one seen anything
> of that? I've particularly seen the wish expressed that one could
> write a Pali text in one Brahmi-derived alphabet and then
> transliterate it visually to another simply by changing the font.

At Ecological Linguistics we tried to do that, but the various Indic
scripts simply don't have total one-to-one correspondence, especially in
matters of conjunct formation.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...