RE: Indic scripts, visual-order vs phonetic-order

2002-06-06 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/06/2002 12:45:15 AM "Maurice Bauhahn" wrote: >In Khmer one of the problems visual order brings up for computer >implementations is the large variety of character orders this could involve. >There are two-glyph vowels with pre and post consonant placement, one-glyph >vowels which preceed, a

RE: Indic scripts, visual-order vs phonetic-order

2002-06-05 Thread Maurice Bauhahn
When we looked into this at the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, it was decided that Khmer handwriting order should {largely} follow phonetic order. Of course typewriters had to follow visual-order. Most computer implementations previously were not able to handle phonetic order

Indic scripts, visual-order vs phonetic-order

2002-06-05 Thread Samphan Raruenrom
Hello, I'm wondering about the practice of using visual-order vs phonetic-order in Indic writing on typewriter vs computer vs handwritten. Are they all the same? I also heard that there are two input-method styles for Indic, visual-order and phonetic-order. Is it true? And what is more po

Re: "Phonetic grouping" in UniHan

2002-02-04 Thread Thomas Chan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > I also take the occasion to suggest a new field that could be very useful: > the frequency of usage of each character. This information may be derived > from good on-line sources. E.g., for Chinese, from Chi-Ho Tsai's research > (http://www.geocities.c

Re: "Phonetic grouping" in UniHan

2002-02-04 Thread John H. Jenkins
dictionary-like data > - [...] > - A phonetic grouping for the character" > > The phonetic grouping seems to be an integer number, and I wonder: > > - What does this information mean? > > - Why some characters don't have it? Is it just missing or it does not > apply &g

"Phonetic grouping" in UniHan

2002-02-04 Thread Marco Cimarosti
In the on-line UniHan database (http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html) I see a field that I have never seen before: "- Other useful dictionary-like data - [...] - A phonetic grouping for the character" The phonetic groupin

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 23:05 -0800 2000-12-17, scríobh Richard Cook: >And as for the consonant symbols, why stop with t, d, n, l, c, z? Why >not include the rest of the curly-tail and other symbols in the >following chart: > >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tail-table3.pdf > >there are a few other bits of data y

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-17 Thread Richard Cook
"J%ORG KNAPPEN" wrote: > > The curly-tail consonants t, d, n, l, c, z are also included in the > TeX IPA (tipa fonts). The documentation of those fonts is available > on > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/texarchive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.ps.gz > > --J"org Knappen Hi J"org, It looks as if you sent the wrong u

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-17 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
The curly-tail consonants t, d, n, l, c, z are also included in the TeX IPA (tipa fonts). The documentation of those fonts is available on ftp://ftp.dante.de/texarchive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.ps.gz --J"org Knappen

Re: curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-08 Thread Richard Cook
This table has undergone some further revision: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tail-table3.pdf Please note in the center of the table: U+0291/U+0293 and U+0255/U+0286 These 4 may in fact be 2 pairs of functional equivalents (synographs), pointing to the same place of articulation. Accordi

Re: curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-05 Thread Richard Cook
With regard to the curly-tail character set, here's a link to an IPA-style chart of this I made: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tail-table2.pdf The curly-tail series is in red. As always, comments, suggestions and corrections are welcome. Richard S.

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-27 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Robert Lloyd Wheelock wrote: > >From: JÖRG KNAPPEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters > >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:33:05 -0800

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-27 Thread Robert Wheelock
>From: JÖRG KNAPPEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:33:05 -0800 (GMT-0800) > >The curly-tail consonants t, d, n

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-25 Thread Richard Cook
eting of WG2 I'd collected a number of > books on Yi, in which these characters occur. I think your arguments about > the productivity of the curl in the IPA are spot on. Michael, Yes, transcription of Yi (Lolo) and other Lolo-ish and Lolo-Burmese languages is one of the things I

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-25 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 13:10 -0800 2000-11-23, scríobh Richard Cook: >Hi everyone, >This paper, brought to your attention last June > >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tailed-tdnlcz.pdf >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/TranscriptionTable-WUZongji.jpg > >has been updated recently. Still working on getting the formal

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-24 Thread Richard Cook
"J%ORG KNAPPEN" wrote: > > The curly-tail consonants t, d, n, l, c, z are also included in the > TeX IPA (tipa fonts). The documentation of those fonts is available > on > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/texarchive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.ps.gz > > --J"org Knappen Thanks. The URL should have a hyphen in it:

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-24 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
The curly-tail consonants t, d, n, l, c, z are also included in the TeX IPA (tipa fonts). The documentation of those fonts is available on ftp://ftp.dante.de/texarchive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.ps.gz --J"org Knappen

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-23 Thread Richard Cook
suggestions. Best, Richard Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:48:09 -0800 (GMT-0800) Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > Richard S. Cook, of the STEDT Project at the University > of California, Berkeley, passes on the following URL's, which > contain documentation regarding the use of curl

Phonetic?

2000-06-28 Thread rampshot
Exactly what constitutes a phonetic sound, besides being made by a human being? I mean, clapping isn't phonetic, is it? Robert Lozyniak 01 02 03 04 05 06 "Don't stop movin', 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 It's your life, keep on groovin', 15 16 17 18 19