[tlhIngan Hol] Out of curiosity..

[Will Martin]

When I bought the font, I owned font editing software, so I replaced the lowercase characters with a copy of its uppercase equivalent, so case would not matter. 

I also painstakingly kerned every possible character combination. Lawrence subsequently kerned the font, so it looks much better than the earlier version. 

I think the font I now use on my Mac is my modified version, but I never managed to get it into iOS, and I’m not even sure if I still have it on the Mac...

And I didn’t pay for an upgrade when Fontographer failed to survive an OS upgrade. And it never worked in Email, where I would have most wanted to use it...

Sent from my iPhone. 
charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan 

> On Feb 22, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
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>> On Feb 22, 2019, at 09:28, Will Martin <willmartin2 at mac.com> wrote:
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>> Lawrence Shoen’s pIqaD font maps single-letter keys to what are currently multiple character representations of Klingon consonants. Anyone who has used the font already knows how to type with this character set. It would require very little practice to learn to read it.
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> Right, if I’m not mistaken, that mapping is the genesis of what we’ve been calling “xifan hol” in this discussion, though I believe originally it was “XIFAN HOL” since the font used capital letters for the Astra glyphs, and lowercase ones for the Mandel system from the U.S.S. Enterprise Officer’s Manual.
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