#linja lipamanka

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tepid leafBOT
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yeah nonpu and cartouches are from said previous revision

cinder wyvern
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a

rough drum
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lol that namako is from march the only glyphs that are good are the 120 pu ones

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yes exactly

stoic rivet
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a ni li pona a, sina pali wawa

rough drum
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@dusk imp SUPER NOT CENTERED

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fixed it

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did some like slight adjustments

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perfect

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loje is less lopsided though :/

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changed it again

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@stable trench how do I add ligatures in the opentype menu

pseudo surge
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all the triangles are different shapes despair

rough drum
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wait I found it

rough drum
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this is a handwrity font

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if it was geometric it would be harder to read

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anyway is there an easier way to do this -_-

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    sub a by aTok;
    sub a k e s i by akesiTok;```
cinder wyvern
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generate it?

rough drum
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I am not good enough to do that

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skldfj

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however

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there do need to be spaces between each letter on the left

cinder wyvern
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oh there's a space between the letters

rough drum
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ye

cinder wyvern
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hm, ale and ali lol

rough drum
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if this includes ku words I'm gonna have to delete those manually for now

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but this is super helpful thank u magic man

cinder wyvern
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I can give you pu

dense inlet
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i love the different triangle shapes on loje jelo and laso but kule is TOO TALL

cinder wyvern
rough drum
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sldfjslf never mind

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I forgot I actually have the glyphs in the font they just look bad

cinder wyvern
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a

rough drum
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okay so

  1. spaces are still .notdef
  2. sina doesn't seem to combine fully?
cinder wyvern
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because sin comes before sina?

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and a comes before sina?

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I have no idea how these work

rough drum
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neither do I a a a

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well I kind of know how the work

dense inlet
rough drum
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I am figuring out how to use this opentype designer on this new program

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okay I think I gotta add some latin letters real quick lmao

dense inlet
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thats not very TOKI PONA of you 🤬

rough drum
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done

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LSFJLKDJF

loud jetty
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the ligatures probably need to be sorted longest to shortest
so like "kepeken" first, "e" last

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they're beautiful

dense inlet
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a and p are making me >:(

rough drum
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but I'll try it

loud jetty
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a is cute, the lil curly serif

dense inlet
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actually a is fine when its not at the beginning

rough drum
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wait idk if I know how to sort a bunch of lines by that

loud jetty
rough drum
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fascinating

dense inlet
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why is u so big 😭

rough drum
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I drew these by hand on my fucking laptop with fontcreator's brush tool

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with a mouse

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(no mousepad)

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(but tbh my setup has been working fine? like my mouse works fine?)

dense inlet
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based

rough drum
loud jetty
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it's bizarre that the new program doesn't do it automatically for you

rough drum
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it is

loud jetty
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maybe it doesn't sort if you type them in?

rough drum
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maybe

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are you SURE they need to be worted or is this like an educated guess

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*sorted

loud jetty
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educated guess

rough drum
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ah

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because fontforge was picky about the order I put in the thing (and it kept everythign in an order I think)

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or did it thonk

loud jetty
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like on a technical level someone needs to sort them, text string replacement doesn't work properly if you don't

rough drum
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true

loud jetty
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and sorting thousands of ligatures is computationally expensive for a computer viewing a font
so it's presumably the font creator's job to do it once at the beginning

rough drum
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okay so I just need a sorted version that sorts the lines by amount of characters

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idk how to do that

loud jetty
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can you import the ligatures from like linja sike or something?

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it sounds like using jan Ke Tami's text file isn't actually a time saver

rough drum
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no bc linja sike doesn't have UCSUR codepoints or the names that I used for the glyphs

rough drum
loud jetty
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hmm maybe you can just google this and there's a dedicated web page for it, covered in ads

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that's how I solve half the problems I have with text files

rough drum
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found something online

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oh wait I'm deleting that it's like, spam

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okay success

cinder wyvern
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I could have given you a newly sorted file 😄

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pona

rough drum
rough drum
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thanks suwi o
xoxo

hard otter
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😳

rough drum
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😳

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oh now all of the kulupu pali are in this channel oops

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don't feel bad about it tbh they deserve to be here

hard otter
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better be on your best behaviro

agile barn
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ima say a bad word

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"papa"

rough drum
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me too

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oh I was gonna say an actual slur

hard otter
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no slurs!

rough drum
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okay,

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you QUEER

hard otter
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❤️

dense inlet
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bassoon

rough drum
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io sono il fagotto

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ban me

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for saying bassoon in italian

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:(

dense inlet
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-bhan "lipamanka for saying bassoon in italian"

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oh we arent in mante

hard otter
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get a better instrument to say

rough drum
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okay, feygele

hard otter
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ummm no im a soko now not a waso...

rough drum
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but ur a feygele right

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it's yiddish for "gay /slur"

agile barn
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bassoon in italian

knotty widget
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I unpinned like a second after I pinned it, but there is no unpin announcement

tepid leafBOT
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o lukin

true stone
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a

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pona

rough drum
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<@&811644330770301008> update: soon cartouches will work lol

zenith herald
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Is the name to linja sike changing or am I dumb?

rough drum
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ye

zenith herald
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Oh

rough drum
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well no I just started making a new font ig

real bough
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putting the cartouche before the horseourche

zenith herald
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Ahh

zenith herald
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IT WAS A HORSE /ref

rough drum
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@cinder wyvern hey can u generate something 4 me

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I need all the pu words in order seperated by a space with "Tok" at the end

agile barn
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yeay

agile olive
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aTok akesiTok alaTok alasaTok aleTok anpaTok anteTok anuTok awenTok eTok enTok esunTok ijoTok ikeTok iloTok insaTok jakiTok janTok jeloTok joTok kalaTok kalamaTok kamaTok kasiTok kenTok kepekenTok kiliTok kiwenTok koTok konTok kuleTok kulupuTok kuteTok laTok lapeTok lasoTok lawaTok lenTok leteTok liTok liliTok linjaTok lipuTok lojeTok lonTok lukaTok lukinTok lupaTok maTok mamaTok maniTok meliTok miTok mijeTok mokuTok moliTok monsiTok muTok munTok musiTok muteTok nanpaTok nasaTok nasinTok nenaTok niTok nimiTok nokaTok oTok olinTok onaTok openTok pakalaTok paliTok palisaTok panTok panaTok piTok pilinTok pimejaTok piniTok pipiTok pokaTok pokiTok ponaTok puTok samaTok seliTok seloTok semeTok sewiTok sijeloTok sikeTok sinTok sinaTok sinpinTok sitelenTok sonaTok soweliTok suliTok sunoTok supaTok suwiTok tanTok tasoTok tawaTok teloTok tenpoTok tokiTok tomoTok tuTok unpaTok utaTok utalaTok waloTok wanTok wasoTok wawaTok wekaTok wileTok

pearl portal
rough drum
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sina wawARR

paper grove
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strongly disagree with myself from two weeks ago. linja lipamanka is awesome

rough drum
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true

rough drum
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hey bird how readable is this

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ignore the open at the beginning

real bough
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where else would open be

cinder wyvern
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line height seems small to me?

rough drum
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i can’t change that lol

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at least not in this preview window

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to my knowledge

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@stable trench if i can do that then lmk i might need to for cartouches

rough drum
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honestly

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adding the glyphs one by one isn’t a huge deal

native trench
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wow knowing where the sentence breaks are is surprisingly easy

rough drum
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ikr

rough drum
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okay I found a solution...

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to the thing last night

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I make a copy of every single base glyph with whatever thing .copy suffix thing added to it

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if it already has a suffex it just adds .copy to the end

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so I have all the base glyphs, and then I have all the base glyphs but copied

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so I can copy and paste from there into a new range of alt glyphs to make composites because it'll copy the composite instead of the contours with just normal ctrl+c

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which is GREAT

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to be clear this copied ranges thing won’t be like, actually used in the font

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in fact i will try to remove it from the font to make the font file smaller bc it’s gonna be a huge font file lol

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basically just a pallet of every glyph but i’m copying that version of it instead of the contours

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<@&811644330770301008> heya streaming now 👍 come watch me stream !

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DO IT

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I'm like sleepy

marble vessel
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eeming?

rough drum
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so I'm acting funny

simple sequoia
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sorry im being hot rn 😔 its a full time job

marble vessel
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eamstray?

rough drum
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WOAH HYDRATION IS GREAT

keen yew
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anyone Screaming

rough drum
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me now

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I'm just Too Impulsive to not screem randomly

keen yew
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thats good though

rough drum
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ye

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u should join and hear me screaming

keen yew
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probabbly wont my headphones r fucked and my mic can randomly start screaming at people which is rlly unpleasant for them

agile barn
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im calling my partner right now 😎

rough drum
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ooo true okay

simple sequoia
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this pub is too busy for me to keep up with the conversation lmao

rough drum
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aw

rough drum
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@dusk imp @stable trench

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if you enjoy my fontmaking make sure to support @knotty widget on ko-fi

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I mean

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me

loud jetty
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everyone give lipamanka three dollars 🐮🐮🐮

rough drum
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WHAT NO

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I FIXED IT

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CARTOUCHE SAMPLE TEXT

vestal vault
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when your own font laughs at you for your mistake /lh

rough drum
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yuihjikofdgjsfad fso true

native trench
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[] imo

rough drum
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<@&811644330770301008> what text would you like to input for it to become a cartouche? like [] works but what else anything elese?

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like yeah

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[] works

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but

agile barn
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hmm it might be best to just leave it there

rough drum
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what if it was likeother thing? idk

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okay

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what about for pi extender thing

keen yew
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what is the current one

native trench
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pi and iq

rough drum
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pi () like that?

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FUCK

agile barn
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pi like that with no space could be good

rough drum
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or pi() like that

wooden flame
keen yew
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pi() feels better

loud jetty
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if people start using a different sitelen in your font, they'll expect it in other fonts, and then everything will feel a little more broken
so I like [] taso

rough drum
vestal vault
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try interpunct on cartouches

rough drum
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OH I HAVE NOT ADDED THE INTERPUNCT

agile barn
rough drum
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WHOOPSIES

agile barn
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• is this an interpunct

rough drum
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okay putting a . in a cartouche will automatically default it to middot

wooden flame
agile barn
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ok nice that works

rough drum
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and same with :

vestal vault
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nice

agile barn
rough drum
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I dare you

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say it

native trench
rough drum
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get banned

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mine too report_this_post_to_mods

wooden flame
rough drum
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what's deez

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/genq

native trench
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deez kili ma

rough drum
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I have four report report_message report_this_post_to_mods report_this_post_to_mods ready

tepid leafBOT
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The ma ante one works on ma pona apparently

rough drum
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yep

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whoops

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fuck

white cove
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@rough drum good work! we caught the ban evader this time!

rough drum
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thaks

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join vc

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we're having a fun time

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SO TRUE

pearl portal
rough drum
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yes I am

native trench
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we’re just in another server

rough drum
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secret vc in kama sona

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anyway here's the fucking

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k has a smily face in it

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because fucK you

indigo prairie
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i support this

pearl portal
native trench
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join a vc and we will 🛸 e sina

pearl portal
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mi sowéli

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,,hm

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it says disconnected and i can't hear anypony

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but i can see factorio

native trench
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pakala

pearl portal
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android legacy is fun

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nbd though

distant maple
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is it technically possible to do cartouches with mu mu (mu mu) but also extended pi with mu mu pi (mu mu) ?

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like using parentheses for both i mean

lapis loom
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() isn't only used to extend pi, so it's likely to break those glyphs

native trench
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so pi (mu mu) results in

misty lanternBOT
native trench
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and pi(mu mu) results in

misty lanternBOT
distant maple
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that would be sick yeah

cinder wyvern
cinder wyvern
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You'd have to have an extra way to do

misty lanternBOT
rough drum
native trench
rough drum
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BABA_HAS_GUN /neg

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(that message was a joke)

native trench
agile barn
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alternatively 8|

rough drum
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linja lipamanka homestuck update coming next

true stone
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when we started this I thought there wouldn't be so many messages,

tepid leafBOT
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the channel just goes on fucking forever,,
sorry but after over an hour I'll have to stop it with 🙂 reacts lakwijons

rough drum
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wait you’ve been reacting them to every fucking message??

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the amusement of that completely outweighs how it’s a bit annoying fjsjlsjfjsjf that’s so funny

tepid leafBOT
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yeah... lol

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(every message, from you specifically)

rough drum
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yes

fast knot
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🙂 glyph in linja lipamanka

tepid leafBOT
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THIS

steady cape
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extremely late to the party re: make cartouche, but it would be very interesting to have a font (maybe not this one) that auto-cartouches capitalized words, so instead of "toki [ike nasa lili ike]" it could be something like "toki Ike Nasa Lili Ike"

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oh, I retract my interest, doesn't allow for multi-cartouches in a row (not common at all, and possibly very ike, but I'm sure somebody does it somewhere)

distant maple
cinder wyvern
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mi wile e nimi tu a

distant maple
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i kinda like the idea. maybe put in an invisible character that starts a new cartouche

cinder wyvern
loud jetty
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I think this is a different idea from that

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spp will auto-cartouche "waso Keli"
they're talking about auto-cartouching "waso Kasi Esun Lete Ilo"

cinder wyvern
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a!

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I mean
That could just mean adding an interruption character

distant maple
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but it would be sick to be able to make a good looking cartouche with just "jan Kiwen En (invisible new cartouche character) Tomo Anu Mi Insa" tho

loud jetty
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I would find it harder to press Shift a bunch of times than to press [] twice

distant maple
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nasin mute o ken!

cinder wyvern
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Double space to stop the cartouche and allow for a new one to begin could work, but that's just one idea

distant maple
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Shift seems easier on iOS, [] seems easier on "real computer"

distant maple
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the more ways to do it, the easier it will be for more people

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the fewer people doing this out of laziness:

misty lanternBOT
distant maple
loud jetty
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unmarked morae despair

distant maple
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bask in its glory

loud jetty
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just put one dot at the beginning if you're so intent on avoiding them

distant maple
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yeah •[kepijona]• or something doesn't seem too bad

loud jetty
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no like

misty lanternBOT
loud jetty
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that applies the dot to everything in the cartouche

distant maple
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that's not bad either ¯_(ツ)_/¯

loud jetty
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it's a convention, so it's more likely to be understood by people without them having to reread your name 4 times

distant maple
pearl portal
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i think i told you about it a while ago

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during a bird interaction #912286596517220363 message

distant maple
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mm yes :/

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i mean i've never seen it actually done, most people are happy with ken • pi • jo • nasa •

tepid leafBOT
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the fact that a Worse system is slowly sprouting from my system made to make the bad system good is smth i should just not care about but gods is it annoying

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real bough
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I still want to do

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and if folks are intent on calling me akesi kon Nlsn out of spite, that's a price I'm willing to pay

cinder wyvern
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That's more of a personal glyph anyway

dense inlet
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ive realized that i made my name glyph not to mean Temi and go into a cartouche, but to mean mu Temi as a whole thonk

loud jetty
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mi tu

dense inlet
true stone
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a a thanks

rough drum
glass snow
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woa

rough drum
rough drum
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extended pi will SOON BE SUPPORTED

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@keen yew are u excited

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trying to figure shit out

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opentype is COMPLICATED

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WHY AREN'T THEY COMBINING

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@stable trench help meeeee

stable trench
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houh whuh

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cn you screem shot the whole window

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so i can see wjats doing on

rough drum
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I also have this as a single substitution

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if you want I can hop on vc

stable trench
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this is sk so weiorge

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is it in the same table as /p /i > /piTok

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OHHH i see yeah thats the problem

rough drum
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OH

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IT NEEDS TO BE A DIFFERENT TABLE

stable trench
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yeah

rough drum
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🙏

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very helpful

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anything about order I should know

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like which table goes first

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(wow that was. pretty obvious. damn)

stable trench
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you can change order in the left most thingy

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panel

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i think

rough drum
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okay cool

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I'm gonna just use the code editor it's easier

stable trench
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also i use rlig instead of liga

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j think that suits better for the specific thingy

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tfucntio

rough drum
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this should wrok

rough drum
steady cape
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You can do it, lipamanka o!

rough drum
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skldfsjdlkfs

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thanks 4 cheering me on

stable trench
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liga < standard ligature. things like fi ff
rlig < required ligature, something that's required like arabic l+a forming the ligature

rough drum
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OH

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TRUE

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okay

steady cape
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(useless at computers despite being in IT, best I can do)

stable trench
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read all features here

rough drum
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is this all I need to change

stable trench
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yhink so

rough drum
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wooo

stable trench
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wait isnt ligature1 supposed to be after logature2

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since it references ligated glyohs

rough drum
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oh

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lsdkjfslkdj

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okay that's what I was asking about before lksdjf

stable trench
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aweome

rough drum
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still not working...

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D:

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OH

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I NEED LIGATURE2 TO BE UNDER SINGLE SUBSTITUTION

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IT WORKED

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@stable trench thank u

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@sturdy marlin do you remember what the difference between contStartTok and contStartCombTok were

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I have them both but I forget what the difference is idk if you remember or not

dense inlet
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fonts are too complicated why cant i just say words

rough drum
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lol

dense inlet
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lipamanka can i show you the rainbow stairs at the cottage im at !

rough drum
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ye

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pls

dense inlet
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i ran around stimming for like 15 minutes while people were trying to sleep after i found these

loud jetty
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supa kule

rough drum
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woahhhh

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whic is better @dusk imp

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<@&811644330770301008> I wanna know what y'all think too

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if I'm being honest idk if I like either

quiet plaza
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i don't like either

vivid drum
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the li looks skewed but i cant tell if it actually is

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also tbh i can't really tell the difference between them

pearl portal
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very overspaced

rough drum
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yes

pearl portal
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i know you're doing monospace but

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but

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consider

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bispace

rough drum
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sdjfkslfj

pearl portal
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where both the start and end of the pi are exactly half a glyph

rough drum
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I actually did consider that but I wanna know what the bird has to say

agile barn
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dislike both tbh

loud jetty
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I'm not a fan of long pi in general, but I prefer the second one

rough drum
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I like the start of the pi

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I don't like the end

agile barn
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yeah the start isn't too bad but i use spaces to mark different sentences

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so this will look confusing to many readers of my texts

rough drum
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but if every time this shows up there's always gonna be a start AND end of pi, they could each be half width

paper grove
loud jetty
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I changed my mind, I like the first one better

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there's a fullwidth ijo where the word "pi" goes, and no fullwidth ijo where there's nothing pronounced

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nnnn

wispy rock
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Tbh bispace could work for tokipona

rough drum
loud jetty
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keep it monospaced, don't give into the temptation

rough drum
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option three

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idk about the end

loud jetty
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pi should be a full width glyph

wispy rock
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End a liiiittle too long

bronze wraith
rough drum
wispy rock
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And idk why we Must Go Monospace

rough drum
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if it's not monospace it looks bad lol

loud jetty
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monospaced is more legible, and making an exception for pi is making a legibility exception

rough drum
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maybe

loud jetty
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tenpo kulupu li kama la mi tawa

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linja pona

cinder wyvern
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isn't the, uh, evolution of extended pi a variant on pi combined with the next word?

rough drum
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how's this working

rough drum
paper grove
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pona lukin a

feral wind
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looks great

rough drum
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okay so it should definitely be spaced more out ly but here's a sample text with the pi in it

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@stable trench how can I increase the line spacing? is there a specific metric?

stable trench
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yes

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metrics are so fucked up

rough drum
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sdkfsjldjf true

stable trench
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its so outdated and the format just has to qork around it

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so

rough drum
stable trench
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nag no thtere

rough drum
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okay

stable trench
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go to font properties

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master > click on default scroll down

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youll see vertical metrics

rough drum
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ah

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is it virtical typo line gap?

stable trench
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yea but above that

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ok so

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you probably have to set all of them

rough drum
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okay

stable trench
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but the way u do it is convoluted causw old format

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hold on

steady cape
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I think the pi seems very odd as a full character width. I think the spacing between the characters is slightly too w i d e for my liking (at least with a line spacing in this proportion and similar). It leads to some glyphs like la looking very isolated and interrupts my reading flow. Different readers may have drastically different reading preferences tho.

rough drum
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okay

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thinking about this tbh

stable trench
rough drum
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okay this is what I did

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seems to work

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hm no I gotta give it more space

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maybe this is too much...

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this seems good?

native trench
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what if pi gets 0 width

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so jan pi kasi mute aligns with jan kasi mute

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this is what i do in my handwriting

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this font generally has a lot of space around glyphs so i think it will work well

rough drum
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that looks really cramped lol

fast knot
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simply break the entire monospace design for one character /j

rough drum
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this is what people seem to be telling me to do?

fast knot
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oh

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i think it looks good how it is

rough drum
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not good enough I need bird aproval

tawdry shale
# rough drum this seems good?

(regarding the second and third lines)
I feel like the leftmost vertical stroke that starts the pi (second line) should be aligned with the leftmost vertical stroke that starts the cartouche (thrid line), as it is right now the pi starts "before" the cartouche (it is to the left of it)

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if this is something intentional that you've already talked about, mi pakala

rough drum
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I haven't really thought much about it

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but I agree I think they should be aligned

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but I gotta figure out what to do about the spacing because I do NOT WANT to do the fucking nonmonospaced pi

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but I also can't find a monospaced version so far that people like

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so I'm waiting for the bird to tell mewhat to do sdklfjsl

loud jetty
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waso ante la
the vertical stroke of both long pi and cartouche should be centered

rough drum
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i agree!

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in fact that’s what i have rn

loud jetty
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a I misunderstood

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I've already opined on the other thing

rough drum
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ah i see

tepid leafBOT
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why's the long pi super curvy

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anyway no spacing at the end is the best version imo

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i used to like the half half thing but it makes big texts with lots of long pis in it look badly spaced

rough drum
rough drum
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because the good thing about monospacing that makes it easy to read is that it’s grid

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which makes it super easy to read

loud jetty
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the 🙂 on every message makes it harder to read this thread

true stone
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a mi ken pini ni

loud jetty
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pona tawa sina

rough drum
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yeah it was funny tho

rough drum
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I have decided to go with this because having everything monospaced makes it easy to read because everything slots in vertically

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it looks good imo

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I could maybe improve it by doing a LOT of extra work and adding a whole extra set of alternates but NO >:( not doing that not gonna overwork myself

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you can do this too

abstract solstice
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Rare noka container glyph

rough drum
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TRUE TRUE

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wow

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... am I going to make two seperate sets of alternates just so that there isn't a sharp edge there ...

tepid tuskBOT
rough drum
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basically for the sake of legibility, nothing is more important than monospacing imo

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well. after the glyphs being recognizable

real bough
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same reason I went with monospace for my font

rough drum
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pona a!

keen yew
rough drum
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it's for a different writing system

keen yew
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ahhh

rough drum
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also for toki pona though

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also nice to see you active on this server

real bough
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#pali-musi message

rough drum
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okay <@&811644330770301008> the next update will come out tomorrow probably (or like after that idk) and will have the following:

  • all pu words
  • all ku words
  • cartouches
  • pi extender (and also extender versions of a bunch of other words like lon, kijetesantakalu, pipi, awen, etc)
    am I forgetting anything else important for UCSUR OH RIGHT COMBINING GLYPHS no . I'm not adding those yet LMAO
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these glyphs have been redid somewhat (lanpan is smaller, misikeke is long and skinny to better resemble a capsul)

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(n is not different lol)

agile barn
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tysm for all this hard work

rough drum
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that would be pretty cool

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roadmap: adding combining glyphs like Eventually. gonna add the stacking ones first bc those don’t need anchors

indigo tendon
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imma make a font and steal all of your ko-fi business like a real capitalism

rough drum
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i mean

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it wouldn’t be as good as mine

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tbh

indigo tendon
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I made so many fonts though

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all of them excellent

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also a new one for the next mun pi ante toki

rough drum
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for sitelen pona?

indigo tendon
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nah

rough drum
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didn’t think so

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but ur latin fonts are good

indigo tendon
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😊

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now imma steal money tho

rough drum
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nah

indigo tendon
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I wouldn't, I don't really need more money

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unless it's funds for organizing events, then money is useful

rough drum
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u could give me more money i kind of need some more money

indigo tendon
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true

rough drum
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i’m running out of instant ramen

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and i have linja lipamanka plus that book

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that i’m writing

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and i have to put out a survey for that

indigo tendon
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how good is that instant ramen?

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that's important, I need to make sure you eat well

rough drum
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it’s the good stuff

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and i have stuff i add to it like preserved meat and nuts and dried fruits and also dried veggies (well less of those)

indigo tendon
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sounds good

rough drum
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okay giv me mu y

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/desperate /begging

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20% if proceeds go to @knotty widget in need

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if he lets me

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ko-fi is in pins /manipulation /please

indigo tendon
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I need to get home first and buy some groceries to be able to survive the upcoming week

rough drum
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o survive pona

indigo tendon
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so if I don't remind me later ™️

rough drum
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get some cherries 🍒

agile barn
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oh wait

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heads up @rough drum this is in the upcoming rule change

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thought you'd like to know that the kulupu pali li wile LAWA e JAN ALE li OWE

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mi musi taso

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i actually am a little bit of a fan of this change because I used to rely on tone tags

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but also lipamanka you're always good about being clear about when you're joking jtlyk. you do a good job of it

bold inlet
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Is it okay to do this /srs /j

agile barn
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prolly not in the upcoming change

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so get them out while you still can

steady cape
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Will there be an empty character for sentence separation? The padding of the characters seems too wide imo. Having it monospaced works well, but most of the glyphs are built tall, rather than wide or square, so it feels like their grid spaces ought to be more of a vertical rectangle. Even the widest characters wouldn't be super impacted by changing that geometry because their wideness would be compensated for naturally by the narrowness of most other characters. It may also resolve the perceived strangeness of the full space pi.

tepid leafBOT
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narrowing the glyphs would make the wide glyphs (like nimi) be Tiny though

rough drum
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but the spacing is staying the way it is

rough drum
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<@&811644330770301008> stream ing time

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if my fucking computer will let me connect to the voice chat

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okay it only let me connect to toki uta lili?

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and the toki pona taso ones

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OH it's bc of tpt day right

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okay one sec I am gonna restart my laptop

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fuck it toki pona taso stream

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mi kama toki pona taso e pali mi

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o kama o kute e toki pona taso

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a ilo mi li kama pakala

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mi sona ala e tan

rough drum
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@native trench

rough drum
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ni li jan Sonje

keen yew
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jan Vriska li lon seme

rough drum
keen yew
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jan Vriska li pona tawa ale

rough drum
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linja lipamanka update: check sona kulupu

rough drum
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<@&811644330770301008> UCSUR support not including combining characters, but yes including middot and colon! also it's a ligature font and period -> middot, use () directly after pi or lon and put words inside it for extenders, and [] for cartouches (middot and colon supported in cartouches!)

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if anyone wants one without ligatures I can send that too but I won't if people don't want that

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@stable trench @dusk imp

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sdfgghfsgf

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it will fuck up your things lol

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you won't be able to read anythign except toki pona

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make sure to delete the ligature and single substitution feature files lol 👍

cinder wyvern
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doesn't work with UCSUR (grey) nor with ligatures (white)?

rough drum
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what software are you using

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does it support chaning substitutions

cinder wyvern
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browser
should, yeah, works for other fonts

rough drum
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huh.

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nasa

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you typed in ma [kasi alasa nasin awen telo a] right

cinder wyvern
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it's in UCSUR codepoints, so one is with cartouche extenders and one is without extenders

rough drum
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if the white one is ligatures then did you type in toki [ale] and pi(ale a)

cinder wyvern
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yep

rough drum
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I haven't tested with the codepoints in the font sofware so idk about those but the ligature version should work because it works when I test it thonk

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oh huh I tested it and it doesn't work thonk

cinder wyvern
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I'll reload in a bit, just got home

rough drum
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okay hm

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thanks for the tests jan Ke Tami

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I fixed it

cinder wyvern
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no change

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but maybe I loaded it wrong

rough drum
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oh?

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hm

cinder wyvern
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loaded it wrong
it works

rough drum
cinder wyvern
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the pi with the extension character is empty, interesting

rough drum
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oh it works

cinder wyvern
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󱤑󱥍󱦗󱥔󱤼󱦘
works

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󱤑󱦓󱦗󱥔󱦔󱤼󱦔󱦘
doesn't work

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uh

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like
there is a workaround for non-opentype environment in UCSUR

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pi extension

cinder wyvern
# cinder wyvern 󱤑󱦓󱦗󱥔󱦔󱤼󱦔󱦘 doesn't work

In case it's needed, these are:
F1911 SITELEN PONA IDEOGRAPH JAN
F1993 SITELEN PONA START OF LONG PI
F1997 SITELEN PONA START OF LONG GLYPH
F1954 SITELEN PONA IDEOGRAPH PONA
F1994 SITELEN PONA COMBINING LONG PI EXTENSION
F193C SITELEN PONA IDEOGRAPH MUTE
F1994 SITELEN PONA COMBINING LONG PI EXTENSION
F1998 SITELEN PONA END OF LONG GLYPH

dense inlet
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ah

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that scared me 😭

cinder wyvern
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sorry

dense inlet
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no its fine i thought it was funny

cinder wyvern
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"jan"

dense inlet
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some of these look really High Up

rough drum
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huh pona is high up..

dense inlet
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anpa, kala, kalama, kepeken, meli, mu, pipi, pona, sewi, telo
are high up

cinder wyvern
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sewi li sewi a a

lucid nymph
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lipamanka o i am ill i havent been reading the pings is any of it urgent/requires response?

cinder wyvern
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no
just new versions of the font

rough drum
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ye

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/updates

keen yew
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/updates tone tag

rough drum
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dfghjkljgfg

indigo tendon
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what's the updates tone

pearl portal
indigo tendon
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I don't know that

pearl portal
indigo tendon
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I see

lucid nymph
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sorry lipamanka i fell asleep did i miss anything (joke)

rough drum
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lol

agile barn
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will we still have the soweli+suwi and similar in linja Lipamanka?

paper grove
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EK.?D;O[D'/D]

rough drum
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yes

paper grove
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fuck

rough drum
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100

paper grove
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my friend typed that (what a troller!) i was going to delete it immediately but you responded within 0.04 microsecond

rough drum
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i see

paper grove
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anyway. linja lipamanka

rough drum
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wawa

paper grove
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last night i spent like an hour trying to install either betterdiscord or powercord so i could see the funny font

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i did not see the funny font.

rough drum
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you can just use it on your computer it’s not just a discord thing

paper grove
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i mean i wanted to use it on discord

rough drum
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aw i’m sorry it didn’t work out then

paper grove
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yeah but i think i know what to do to get it to work once i'm able to try again

rough drum
# rough drum

<@&587034472898101250> can you pin this and unpin the other one

indigo tendon
indigo tendon
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first

tepid leafBOT
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nuh uh, different message 😛

hard otter
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📌

rough drum
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what's going on

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@stable trench help me despair

#
mi wilenini li pali ala a!~ seme mi wile pali e ijo a


o 
tan seme la ni li nasa
tan seme la ni li PALI ALA
ijo



ijo



ijo lskdjflksj
slkdjf
sldkfjlksjdflksjdflkjsldfkjslkdfjlksjdflkjlkjlkjlkjslfdkjllskdjflkjsdflkjsdflkjsdflkjsdflkjsdflkjsdlfkjsldkjflskjdflksjdflkjsdflkjsflkjflskjdflksdjflskdjflskjdflksdjfljslksdfjlksjdflkjsdkfjklikljkiljlsejisekjslejsleijseltijseltisjetlisjetlisjetlisjetlsjeikstjleitjseltijseltijselitjselitjsleitjsleitjsliejtslietjslietjsleitjleitjelitjseltijseltijseltijselitjseitjsleijtlisejtlseitjlsetijslteijlijtlsiejtlsiejtlsiejtlisetjlisejtlistjliseklsijsljetjlisjetsekisksteljsetjiklsetjiklsetjiklsetjiklsetjikljiklset```
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it's just not working lol.

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this is ANNOYING

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no literally

simple sequoia
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so true

paper grove
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hell yeah i got the font to display on discord

stable trench
rough drum
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OH I SEE

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@stable trench ?

stable trench
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why linegap so big

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ohhh

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you swt normal ascender descender value to 0

rough drum
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ah

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what should they be

rough drum
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@stable trench D:

primal wind
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ty!!

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there a good sample sentence or smth around

tepid leafBOT
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too lazy to see if anyone's brought this up, the cartouches go too far up for discord to render

rough drum
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nobody’s brought that up but i think i know why

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it’s bc of the metrics i have

tepid leafBOT
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actually everything's still too high up

rough drum
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skill issue

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actually no i think i just fucked up the metrics that’s all

rough drum
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@stable trench help me with metrics

stable trench
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hlo

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holon

stable trench
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ur baseline is at the bottom of your bounding box

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this is not ideal and will make your characters look like theyre floating

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so pull them down a bit using commands

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usually cjk types will have them near uh

rough drum
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hi i’m going to bed but i will follow these instructions tomorrow

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hyperfixation switching from book to font

stable trench
rough drum
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okay this is actually pretty helpful

rough drum
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OH

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@dusk imp we figured it out

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it was my bad metrics

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this was all the same problem

tepid leafBOT
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lol

stable trench
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typo ascender: top of default bounding box
typo descender: bottom of default bounding box
typo line gap: sensible line gap height, i would personally make this at least (win ascent+ -win descent)-(typo ascender+ -typodescender)
win ascent: maximum height, round up
win descent: maximum depth, round down (these two act as bounding metrics for rendering, so if you dont make them big enough glyphs will be cut out)
ascender, descender, line gap < same as typo metrics

cap height: adequate cap height
x height: adequate x height

rough drum
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thank you!!!!

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i will send you money on ko fi for helping maybe??

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u deserve money

half sun
#

random but. the "tonsi (D:)" makes your computer seem transphobic and that's very funny to me

rough drum
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ikr

rough drum
lapis loom
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D:

rough drum
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people who use they them pronouns more like

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really cool

paper grove
#

true as hell

split kernel
rough drum
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okay with new metrics

tepid leafBOT
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round pi continues its reign...

rough drum
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round pi will be FIXED EVENTUALLY

tepid leafBOT
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😤

rough drum
pearl portal
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pi kiki

#

ki

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wait nO

rough drum
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lol

lucid nymph
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i like it. did you give me malware.

rough drum
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yes

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the opentype feature "rlig" is short for "removing loads in g-storage" which basically means that I'm removing everything in ur g storage on ur computer

lucid dew
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whats a g storage

native trench
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it’s where the computer’s hopes and dreams are

lucid dew
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i cant let that happen

tepid leafBOT
#

󱤌󱦐󱤌󱤌󱤌󱦑

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hm

lucid dew
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how did you do the nothing message

tepid leafBOT
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okay yup it's fixed

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it's not nothing

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it's UCSUR

lucid dew
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ah bruh i dont have ucsur on my phone

tepid leafBOT
#

󱤁󱦐󱤧󱤎󱥍󱤆󱤰󱤀󱤾󱤘󱤄󱦑󱤧󱥵󱥧󱥉󱥆

#

pls don't do actual nothing messages they fuck me up

native trench
#

there’s also a certain link you can send that makes the message zero lines long
but it doesn’t work on mobile i think

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a

vivid drum
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Sounds like the stupid discord crap I've come to expect by now

rough drum
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hey can you send images with these @dusk imp

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like you were doing before

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bc I cannot see anythign klsjdflkj

cinder wyvern
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Oh right, when I zoom in, it's fine

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oh interesting

distant maple
#

an imperfection!!

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nice find tho

distant maple
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@rough drum o silly question. for proper adjectives in a pi-phrase, have you ever thought about combining the lines from extended-pi and the bottom of the cartouche?

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like this lmao

tepid leafBOT
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how it looks on my end

rough drum
half sun
rough drum
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i think i need to autohint again that’s my problem

rough drum
tepid leafBOT
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crimes against discord

mun Kosomo (o @ tawa mi! ^^) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1053850152932233266 message) ooh how do you get that to work?

pearl portal
# half sun ooh how do you get that to work?

safest way is to rename the font to something like Helvetica Neue which is one of discord's default fallback fonts
easiest (and still pretty safe) way is to install openasar and add it to the css

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... ucsur

tepid tuskBOT
#

#8839 📣 A standard for encoding common sitelen pona glyphs:
https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/sitelen.html
A guide to have the characters render on devices can be found under ... ucsurtutorial and https://github.com/Id405/sitelen-pona-ucsur-guide/blob/main/README.md
Defined codepoints (2022-05-20)
pu: 󱤀 󱤁 󱤂 󱤃 󱤄 󱤅 󱤆 󱤇 󱤈 󱤉 󱤊 󱤋 󱤌 󱤍 󱤎 󱤏 󱤐 󱤑 󱤒 󱤓 󱤔 󱤕 󱤖 󱤗 󱤘 󱤙 󱤚 󱤛 󱤜 󱤝 󱤞 󱤟 󱤠 󱤡 󱤢 󱤣 󱤤 󱤥 󱤦 󱤧 󱤨 󱤩 󱤪 󱤫 󱤬 󱤭 󱤮 󱤯 󱤰 󱤱 󱤲 󱤳 󱤴 󱤵 󱤶 󱤷 󱤸 󱤹 󱤺 󱤻 󱤼 󱤽 󱤾 󱤿 󱥀 󱥁 󱥂 󱥃 󱥄 󱥅 󱥆 󱥇 󱥈 󱥉 󱥊 󱥋 󱥌 󱥍 󱥎 󱥏 󱥐 󱥑 󱥒 󱥓 󱥔 󱥕 󱥖 󱥗 󱥘 󱥙 󱥚 󱥛 󱥜 󱥝 󱥞 󱥟 󱥠 󱥡 󱥢 󱥣 󱥤 󱥥 󱥦 󱥧 󱥨 󱥩 󱥪 󱥫 󱥬 󱥭 󱥮 󱥯 󱥰 󱥱 󱥲 󱥳 󱥴 󱥵 󱥶 󱥷ku suli: 󱥸 󱥹 󱥺 󱥻 󱥼 󱥽 󱥾 󱥿 󱦀 󱦁 󱦂 󱦃 󱦄 󱦅 󱦆 󱦇 󱦈ku lili: 󱦠 󱦡 󱦢 󱦣special characters: 󱦐 󱦑 󱦒 󱦓 󱦔 󱦕 󱦖 󱦗 󱦘 󱦙 󱦚 󱦛 󱦜 󱦝
web-based converter: https://ilo-pi-sitelen-pona.glitch.me/ and https://ilolili.daviesfam.org/

pearl portal
#

,,oh except that readme's outdated because it has whitney instead of gg sans

half sun
#

󱤀󱤴󱤘󱥬󱤙󱥁:D

rough drum
#

why u should use linja lipamanka

half sun
#

has anyone ever done this for pilin pakala? because i feel like this is a good idea ^^

loud jetty
#

this is a very cute glyph for a very serious medical issue

split kernel
#

i mean it can be heartbreak too not just heart attack

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or something about mental health

rough drum
#

fuck I tested it and it doesn't WORK

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D:

native trench
#

wouldn’t you have to make a unique glyph for each combination

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like you did with the small ala mod

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tho having a only few unique glyphs for pakala mod is fine

rough drum
#

yes

dense inlet
#

i do it in my handwritten sp a lot (my pilin recently got pakala'd again and i toki pona about it a lot)

rough drum
#

let me know if anything in the font is broken; otherwise I'm going to take a break from this project

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because I am getting Too Stressed lol

cinder wyvern
#

lape pona

rough drum
#

yay anti lexicalization

lapis loom
#

pakala pona >:)

loud jetty
#

wow I completely forgot that lape can mean rest

agile barn
rough drum
#

@stable trench whenever I open up linja lipamanka on my mac in textedit it does not take up a full line

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this is what my metrics are rn

#

do you think there might be other problems somewhere else

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never mind I fixed

#

it

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I checked "use typo metrics for line spacing"

#

@white cove period -> middot, colon is monowidth and works inside of cartouches and also outside of cartouches. question marks and exlimation marks are not zero width tho. what specifically do you need in order to use my font on your website? I can set up the opentype features exactly how you want them

white cove
#

i just got 4 pings from 4 different people at once lmao

  • support for the nimi pu + nimi ku suli
  • support for a handful of basic combinations (i use toki+pona and linja+suwi if i remember correctly)
  • support for cartouches
  • replace ending punctuation(.?!:;-) with a full width space (middot is good too)
    • ... don't do that inside a cartouche so that : works
  • replace non-ending punctuation (i think just ,) with a zero width space

also i am not changing the font right away, to be clear, bc i wanna finish up the main lessons and get reviews of the whole project before i change more significant things
but at that point i'm also planning to split the questions lesson into two parts, for example, and work on a story component to go alongside the entire series of lesson

rough drum
#

lol

rough drum
#

if you're not planning on switching yet the I can just put this off more tbh

white cove
white cove
rough drum
#

when do you think you'd want to change the font, assuming that it could meet all of your expectations

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like time estimate

white cove
#

mid february? mid february is what i'm thinking

rough drum
#

tbh I can have it done by then

white cove
#

wawa

rough drum
#

wh wh why is it bad

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IT'S HORRIBLE

#

AAA

#

the contours are all off

lean arrow
#

bezier curven't

rough drum
#

I DON'T AHVE A CHOICE

#

you can't like. make a font.

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and have it like

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not use bezier curves

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unless you have a bitmap font or something

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and I am NOT GOING TO MAKE ONE OF THOSE

bold inlet
#

contour: one who conts

lean arrow
#

I meant more that this contour wasn't very bezierish

bold inlet
#

Bézier lump

rough drum
bold inlet
#

the Béziest curve around

lean arrow
#

o sike pona /utala

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/olin

rough drum
#

lskfjklsjdlfsj

bold inlet
#

o linja pona kepeken linja sike

rough drum
#

linja sike li seme

bold inlet
#

linja li sike la ona li linja sike

native trench
#

linja sike li lon lawa mi

rough drum
#

just in case ppl aren’t aware i am actually working on linja lipamanka again, i’ve ported over all the anpa glyphs and i’m halfway through the sewi ones

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<@&811644330770301008> update ^^

paper grove
#

pona a!

rough drum
#

expect combining glyphs soonish

loud jetty
#

hype

tepid leafBOT
#

pona mute a

rough drum
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woah

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it’s a bird wtf

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what the actual fuck

magic wolf
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waso

tepid leafBOT
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mi waso

rough drum
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seme

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mi sona e ni

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taso

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mi wile sona e ijo ante

tepid leafBOT
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waso pi toki pona taso li lon

rough drum
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wawa

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sina pona a

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mi olin e sina

tepid leafBOT
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mi sona e ni 😘

magic wolf
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mi sona e ni: waso

loud jetty
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waso a

tepid leafBOT
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sina kin li waso aa

loud jetty
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mi waso a

bold inlet
rough drum
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lol

cinder wyvern
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adding another request that of course I'll also pay for - but you'll have to see if you can or want to deal with integrating colours into the font:
extendable pride flags
I'm thinking of

  • rainbow
  • trans
  • enby
  • ace
  • add others so I can pay you more 😛
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Hmmm I might have to pay you twice, actually, because that'd mean creating a fallback for b/w
right?

rough drum
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i mean okay!

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based??? ally?

cinder wyvern
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I want colourful images to look at 😛

little flower
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You're so cool

rough drum
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still cishet tho … (joke)

nova dagger
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is there some kind of document for all the features currently in/planning on being added to the font?

indigo tendon
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it really is

rough drum
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I think the next thing I want to implement actually is multidirectional ni

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at least right facing ni

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because I feel myself wanting to use it so badly

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no seriously

true stone
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Have you added in the sowelin soweis sowelie and soweliw kind of things with directional eyes?

rough drum
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no

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not yet

true stone
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Are you going to?

rough drum
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no idea maybe

pearl portal
rough drum
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yes

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if you want to use a colon you can do ni : instead

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ah I love this

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mi wile tawa ma Iju Si Sanelu

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actually wait

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better

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ma Kiju Si Sanelu

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(Rio de Janeiro)

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ni> would also do this - and ni< would face the opposite way, ni^ would face up

cinder wyvern
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nivty

indigo tendon
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there should be a ni that faces the person looking at the screen

rough drum
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bc of the nature of the cases where ni would be used it would be pretty easy to tell where the sentence breaks are I think? so it might be completely acceptable to just not use any sentence separators in that part of a text even if there are some in use in other parts of the texxt

rough drum
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also re: colors, not sure if it'd be possible without making my font a "color font" thonk it could be

cinder wyvern
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this is what I meant

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I feel that this would be interpreted fine

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I mean in general it seems that sitelen pona is very readable without sentence separators

cinder wyvern
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It's more effort to read though
And there are specific things I would confuse too often, such as taso modifier at the end of a sentence vs sentence initial taso

rough drum
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it's more effort to read though
have you tried?

cinder wyvern
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Yeah I can technically do it

cinder wyvern
rough drum
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sample text

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okay I have to go

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but I think this works pretty well

cinder wyvern
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I guess I'm not used to garden pathing so much in toki pona

I should write a story that tells 2 different things depending on where you place punctuation

rough drum
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nice idea

cinder wyvern
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I have so many letters from so many places in my home. Which do you want? Tell me, who I belong to you, which letter you want. Thus I will give all the requested letters
Please, you, oh, you, feel well where you are, far as you are

o toki e lipu wile tawa mi sina
ni la mi pana e lipu ale wile
sina a o weka pona a
All these books that talk about so many countries shall lessen your need to travel to far-off lands
ni la mi pana e lipu ale
wile tawa sina a o weka pona a

rough drum
rough drum
cinder wyvern
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what part? or all of it?

rough drum
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oh wait

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never mind I get it

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I think that because both of yours kinda sound like nonsense that should clue you on to the fact that you got the sentence boundaries wrong slkdfjlskj

cinder wyvern
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hm I might write some of that
the context and the style/rhythm is pretty strong that these weren't meant like that, though

rough drum
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The "tell me, who I belong to you, which letter you want" I think is kind of weird and it wouldn't be hard to read it differently

cinder wyvern
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that's Egnlish's fault

rough drum
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I want to keep writing fun things and see how good I can get this

cinder wyvern
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mi sina should be perfectly fine

rough drum
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not that either are used that often

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mi sina is perfectly fine but I would expect people reading this to bracket it differently even if no bracketing for sentences is given

cinder wyvern
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boxing in toki pona grumble grumble : D

rough drum
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skdfjs

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okay I'm gonna make more samples

cinder wyvern
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supa Lipamanpaka?

rough drum
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anpa has three morae

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the first two are "a" and "n"

cinder wyvern
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a dot completes a mora
anpa without a dot is already a

rough drum
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yeah anpa with one dot will still just have the first mora

cinder wyvern
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ok, if you use it that way

rough drum
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is that a weird way to use it

cinder wyvern
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it's something that I stumbled over at the beginning, but apparently, if a mora is a vowel, it doesn't count as a dot

rough drum
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can you link me to the original thing

cinder wyvern
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... sitelenkalamashort

tepid tuskBOT
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#9251 📣 A writing system for proper names in sitelen pona, using moras!

  • This goes with the pu system, where symbols read by their first letter. You can mix these systems!
  • A mora is like a syllable, but ends at the vowel because -n is a mora! na n pa
  • Each dot (·) completes the next mora. [anpa] → [anpa · ] → [anpa · · ]
  • Colons (:) add the whole word. [kepeken] → [kepeken · ] → [kepeken · · ] → [kepeken · · · ] → [kepeken : ]
  • Everything is equally spaced, dots and colons too!
    Image: "jan Kulumin Sinpin" https://bit.ly/3Rm2re3
cinder wyvern
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is it in there?

rough drum
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oh I see

cinder wyvern
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oh that's not the original

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... sitelenkalama

tepid tuskBOT
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#8505 📣 nasin sitelen kalama
nasin sitelen kalama is a set of tweaks to the way that names are written in sitelen pona. it aims to make the syllabic writing that many use - where they might write jan Lonka as ⟨jan [lon kala]⟩ - more readable in the context of normal sitelen pona usage. it relies on a moraic analysis of toki pona (see ... mora), and works as follows:

  • single sitelen pona glyphs are read as they would normally be, with only the first sound being spoken. ⟨ijo [awen]⟩ on its own is read as ijo A.
  • when a single dot* follows a glyph, the first mora is spoken. if said glyph starts with a vowel, the second mora is spoken as well. ⟨jan [anpa ·]⟩ and ⟨jan [moli · nasa · ]⟩ are read as jan An and jan Mona respectively.
  • further dots mean subsequent morae are read. ⟨jan [kepeken · ]⟩, ⟨jan [kepeken · · ]⟩, and ⟨jan [kepeken · · · ]⟩ are read as jan Ke, jan Kepe, and jan Kepeke respectively
  • when a colon** follows a glyph, the whole word is read. this is not required, multiple dots may be used instead, but recommended for longer words. ⟨soweli [olin : sina · ]⟩ is read as soweli Olinsi

*usually a fullwidth mid-dot such as 「・」, but other fullwidth solutions such as 「。/」 may also be used
**also fullwidth, 「:」

rough drum
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it uses anpa as an example lol

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I was wrong a

cinder wyvern
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huh that's not the way it was originally worded either, because I think it was more ambiguous