On 17 May 2012, at 18:35, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> It took me a little while, but I finally managed to put this to an
> Inuktitut speaker (Leena Evic of the Pirurvik Centre in Iqaluit, Nunavut).
I had a response from a number of school curriculum developers in Nunavut.
> Her response was that the rotated sidebars on the newsletter cited
> earlier are entirely readable (in fact, I had to explain how there
> could possibly be a problem), and that the vertical layout advocated
> by Michael is "not common, and in most cases not ideal."
My respondants did not address this issue. They understood what was asked, and gave a clear response.
> It would thus appear that Michael is alone in finding rotated
> syllabics hard to read.
> He might have more luck with a language that doesn't use finals or
> other raised letters, but off-hand I can't find one.
Remarkable.
The answer I received was that in vertical text, most of the group preferred (d) in the "Aamuu"/"Atim" example (with the final bound to its syllable) though some of them also found (b) acceptable (with the final below the syllable) as long as the ᒻ character is smaller than the others.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Thu May 17 2012 - 13:02:42 CDT
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