From: Mark Rosa (ll077003@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2011 - 15:27:27 CST
Update on kaida writing!
First off, I found a temporary spot to store this font file without burdening everyone's inbox. (I initiated the process to get publicly-visible space for it on my university account; students' disk space is private by default. The final version will go there.)
http://www.filedropper.com/kaidafont1201-infottf
You should get a ZIP file that you can open and look at. The characters are hand-drawn and not tweaked all that much; this is just for getting started.
Below I've listed the characters so that you can see what makes up kaida writing even if you don't want the font. These temporary codes could serve as the last two digits of actual codepoints (I used XX and Z0..ZF for things that haven't even been put into the font yet), and I'd be happy to hear input for a better ordering.
Comments in (parentheses) are for understanding the font better; comments in [brackets] are my explanations of what as-yet-unprepared characters will look like once they get into the font.
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Kaida font version 2011-02-14:
The following characters are already in the font -- just type the number or letter with that code on a basic Latin-letter keyboard and you should see them:
30 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL ZERO
31 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL ONE
32 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL TWO
33 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL THREE
34 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL FOUR
35 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL FIVE
36 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL SIX
37 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL SEVEN
38 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL EIGHT
39 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL NINE
3A YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL TEN
3B YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL TWENTY
3C YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MONTH
3D YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL THIRTY
3E YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH DAY
3F YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL HUNDRED
40 YAEYAMA KAIDA NUMERAL THOUSAND
41 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH RICE
42 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MILLET
43 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BEAN
44 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SAKE
45 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SALT
46 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH GRAIN
47 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BARLEY
48 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH RED BEAN
49 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH YAM
4A YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH OIL
4B YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SOY SAUCE
4C YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH VINEGAR
4D YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH FUNA
4E YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH FISH
4F YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH FISH VERTICAL VARIANT
50 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SAKE VARIANT
51 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MARE
52 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MALE HORSE
53 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH COW
54 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BULL
55 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH GOAT
56 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH HEN
57 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH ROOSTER
58 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH PIG
5B YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH PERSON
5C YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH KOROJI
5D YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SHRIMP
5E YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH OCTOPUS
5F YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH CANOE
61 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BAMBOO
62 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH LONG GOURD
63 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH GOURD
64 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH THATCH
65 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH FUROMAME
66 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BURDOCK
67 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH VEGETABLE
68 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH GARLIC
69 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH CARROT
6A YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SCALLION
6B YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH PUMPKIN
6C YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH LARGE ROOT
6D YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH PEANUT
6E YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH SWEET POTATO
6F YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH POTATO
70 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH RICE PLANT
71 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH WATERMELON
72 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH NEGI
73 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH KELP
74 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH WATER
75 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MOUNTAIN
76 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH INOKIN
77 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH MISO
78 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH EGG
79 YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH HOUSE
7A YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH YANBARU BOAT
7B YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH VERTICAL SCALE
7C YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT KIN (equals about 600 grams)
7D YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH VERTICAL REVERSED SCALE
7E YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH HORIZONTAL SCALE
Not yet in the font, but definitely will be:
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BOARD (combines with YAEYAMA KAIDA
IDEOGRAPH NUMERAL above/right to indicate length)
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH WARA ROPE
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH BLACK ROPE
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH GRAVE
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH PAPER
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH TAWARA
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH NOODLES
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH POT (combines with YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH
NUMERAL inside)
XX YAEYAMA KAIDA IDEOGRAPH HANDLED POT
Could go in the font, but might not be needed as they share shapes with existing characters:
Z1 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT HYOU [this is a circle]
Z2 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT HALF (also used to mean 1/2 hyo) [right half of a circle]
Z3 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT TO [a cross like a plus sign or hanzi '10']
Z4 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT SHOU [a horizontal line; like a hanzi '1']
Z5 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT GOU [a square]
Z6 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT FIVE GOU [five squares concatenated]
Z7 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT SIX GOU [six " ]
Z8 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT SHAKU [triangle, point up but there's also a variant]
Z9 YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT SAI [vertical line]
ZA YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT JOU (30.3 m)
ZB YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT HUNDRED HIRO (about 200 m; length for rope)
ZC YAEYAMA KAIDA UNIT SHAKU VARIANT [this one points down]
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I used the words "IDEOGRAPH", "NUMERAL", and "UNIT"; are these appropriate? And as I understand it, Unicode character names can consist only of capital Latin letters, so I didn't use any digits or accented letters, and used English names rather than native ones. If such letters and names are permitted, I'd like to put macrons on long vowels, haceks on some of the consonants, and apostrophes after aspirated consonants. I guess those are out, though, right?
Comments and constructive criticism welcome!
Mark
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