Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 00:47 +0000 2005-08-15, suzmccarth wrote:
>
> >I have no criticism of your work except already expressed concerns
> >that Vai and Cree have different levels of syllabary use by native
> >speakers.
>
> Well, I suppose my official position is that I Don't Care how people
> use the characters we encode. But if we do not encode them they are
> not available for use. Crees can have baroque fully-pointed
> orthographies or vague suggestive orthographies as they like.
>
> >My concerns about glyph-based input are real but perhaps better
> >addressed elsewhere.
>
> Glyph based input can be helpful for learning to type, all right, but
> it isn't inherently "better" than QWERTY-based input.

It is if you've never had any reason to learn the roman alphabet.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...