Ar 20:34 -0700 1999-10-20, scríobh Gary Roberts:
>I have made comments that, if heeded, would make significant changes to
>the current proposal for the Tengwar. As usual, it would be best to
>involve more experts and potential users in order to resolve these issues.
I recall some innovative possibilities for the vowels (the problem) which
could be handled by the fonts.
>In short, the alternative I suggest involves handling Tengwar mode
>distinctions outside the normal text stream, allowing search algorithms to
>function properly independent of mode.
Your mail from January 1998 (note that Myanmar and Khmer took precedence
over Tengwar but I did save your message!):
Ar 17:38 -0800 1998-01-13, scríobh Gary Roberts:
>While I have not had time to fully evaluate this proposal, I am
>concerned about the highly unnatural way the tehtar would be
>used for scripts such as Sindarin or English.
>
>Perhaps tehtar are not non-spacing marks at all, but are often written
>in the form of a ligature. So far as I know, English, or any other
>language *can* be written either with tehtar ligatured with the
>preceding or following consonent. It would be unfortunate if the
>underlying form was different. Perhaps the mode of Beleriand is
>an indication that the shape and positioning of tehtar is a rendering
>issue, and should not be codified.
>
>This is merely my first impression, and, no doubt, pursuasive
>argument would change that. Still I would have difficulty
>accepting this proposal in its current form.
>
> *
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