08-05-2026, 09:40 AM
(08-05-2026, 06:04 AM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.At first glance, the “m” just doesn't seem that clear to me. The inner “m” is, on average, 20.4 glyphs away from the end of the line. Baseline (all token-final glyphs, not at the end of the line): 24.1 glyphs. So the inner “m” is only slightly closer to the end of the line than other endings
The proposal is that the Scribe could use certain abbreviations like iin -> m anywhere, but would most often use them at the very end of the line, to delay a line break. Especially to avoid ending the parag with a one-word line.
Thus the inner ms should have a more or less random distribution along the line, as if m was just another letter.
Quote:Plus: with this definition, you’re taking another glyph away from the VMS, which is tricky in itself.
On the other hand, I believe that ee is a single letter in the same class as Ch and Sh. And also that the gallows k, t, CTh, CKh, and the "benches" Ch, Sh, ee can take a postfix e modifier. That is, Ch and Che are two distinct letters. These spelling rules would add 7 letters to the "alphabet".
And maybe the "circles" a, o, y function as modifiers of other letters, too.
All the best, --stolfi