History: srilermorna

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::[title]:: ::la srilermornar.:: ::[chart]:: The script was originally intended to be written without lifting your pen, however it was found that creating enough permutations of unbroken lines to fill Lojban's 25 letter alphabet became stupidly complex very quickly. Thus began experimentation with simple ways of looping, breaking and bending lines, producing 23 unique letters, which were gradually stripped down to 18 unique symbols, the rest completed with the diacritic flick. [character names] !!How to read srilermorna !!!The Flick Srilermorna has one diacritic mark, the flick. The flick represents vocalisation in the pairs ty./dy., ky./gy., fy./vy. and py./by.. It also marries the pairs ly./ry. and ny./my., where it does not strictly represent vocalisation but simply pairs similar sounds. !!!Stops the denpa bu, stop or 'dot' in Lojban has two incarnations in srilermorna, a prefix version and a suffix version. In accordance with its role in spoken Lojban, the stop 'stops' the continuing line of a word. In the case of a prestop, as used in attitudinals and connectives, it begins the line with a small vertical stroke from half height above the baseline, and a poststop, used in cmene, is the same but downwards from the baseline, to half-height below, ending the line. !!!Stress Notation Irregular stress, indicated in the latin system with capital letters, is notated in srilermorna by a straight, horizontal bar which sit above the irregular syllable. [stress] !!How to write srilermorna !!!Handwriting: All letters in the script are designed to be written with the same motions, that is, to zig-zag up and down while moving steadily to the right. [pen motion] Srilermorna letters tend form more cleanly when the pen is moving quite quickly. When writing on lined refill, the recommended method is to use two lanes per line of text, using the blue line in the centre as the baseline. !!!Spacing: Although not vital to the legibility of a text, accurate spacing is a surprisingly big part of srilermorna's overall aesthetic. Cramped letters become cluttered and messy, although not necessarily unreadable. All letters should be roughly evenly spaced, including spaces. The writer might imagine a grid in which one box fits a single letter. !!!Calligraphy: As evidenced in the computerised lettering above, the script is takes its style from calligraphic strokes using a broad tipped pen. A paintbrush or brush-tipped felt pen also works well, and calligraphic writing recreates the aesthetic effect intended by the script. This form is suited to presentation of poetry, art or other artistic media. !!!!About letter breaking: Optionally, the writer can 'break' a marked, looped consonant in order to write the diacritic flick without having to backtrack over their finished word. The letters cy., jy., zy., ry. gy. and dy. already involve lifting the pen from the paper so do not present an issue. It is the writer's discretion whether he or she prefers breaking or backtracking in their writing. !!How to type srilermorna !!!Layout: Typed srilermorna spaces itself, and lends itself equally well to center or left-side alignment, but due to the strict regular spacing, should not be justified lest the lines break. !!!Keyboard mapping: the script is implemented as a truetype font over the latin character set. Therefore it should be totally cross-platform and map directly to any western keyboard configuration. It does not have any special input method, but for the following features: * Prestop and poststop: these are both typed with the period (.) key and should configure themselves while typing. a period will default to a prestop unless folowed by a space, where it will automatically convert. * Forcing poststops: A period can be forced to a poststop in the absence of a space by following it with a grave (`). This is sometimes necessary at the end of a line or inside cmene strings. * Breaking by, vy and my: To type the broken version of py, vy or my, follow it with grave (`). * Note: Using the ` grave symbol to force poststops and type broken letters does not remove the presence of the grave symbol in the text, it is merely invisible. This allows simple ascii copy-pastes to render correctly. For example: the ascii string [.i m`i nelci le .djan. b`av`m`i] renders as [pic] but [.i mi nelci le .djan. bavmi] renders as [pic] * .y'y maps to both the ' key and the h key. * Characters which aren't covered by the font (like numerals, brackets etc) usually default to some latin font, depending on the system. Exceptions to this are Q, q, W, w and grave, all of which have the same symbol, a blank space with no width, so they render as invisible. * Stress bars map to capital letters, making traditional stress notation compatible. srilermorna development versions: ((Lakmir.'s Orthography v1|Rev1)) - ((Lakmir.'s Orthography v2|Rev2)) - ((Lakmir.'s Orthography v3|Rev3)) Non Cursive Script ((Lakmir.'s Noncursive v1|Pre-rev 1 version))

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