Richmond's Winter Project

[richmond62]

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I propose to use the 'number' keys on a computer keyboard for ALL of these symbol sets:
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Quite apart from anything else this is a wonderful way of how one can use MODIFIER keys in OXT.
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1. The Punctuation and numeric keys send glyphs directly to the OUTPUT field as no further calculations need to be performed.

2. I have widened the stack to accommodate instructions and/or modifier buttons on the right-hand side.

The Punctuation buttons have been GROUPED so that they can be hidden when not needed:
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Having hidden the PUNCTUATION group, I am now assembling the DIGITS group (circled in orange).

I have also set up 3 buttons (circled in red) to make each of the 3 top-row groups visible.
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You will notice (see the "fOUTPUT" field) that I have set up each PUNCTUATION symbol to it is succeeded by a SPACE.

[richmond62]

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I have included a ZERO in the numbers even though Ge'ez Amharic does NOT have a symbol for that; let's hope that isn't going to upset any purists.

[richmond62]

Further useful references:

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1380.pdf

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D80.pdf

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAB00.pdf

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E7E0.pdf

Ultimately code should be implemented in Sheba/Makeda so that all these glyphs can show up.

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"Things" will now slow down a bit as the working week starts: so nobody should expect much before Wednesday.

[richmond62]

I am very glad to find that the AbyssiniaSIL font DOES have ALL the Unicode glyphs for Ethiopic so I will not have to enter additional characters.
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I am printing out ALL the Unicode charts for Ethiopic at work today as I am an old-fashioned type of chap who likes to use a pencil, a large exercise book, and so on on a side-desk beside my computer table: and as we can see from a peep into a cardScript in Devawriter Pro:
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The odd reference document re Unicode addresses might serve us well.

[richmond62]

On can enter Unicode addresses in OXT either in Hexadecimal or in Decimal formats:
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on mouseUp
   put empty into fld "ff"
   wait 30 ticks
   put numToCodePoint(0x1E7E2) into fld "ff"
end mouseUp

A HEX number is always preceded by "0x" so the engine recogcises it as a Hexadecimal number.

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on mouseUp
   put empty into fld "ff"
   wait 30 ticks
   put numToCodePoint(124898) into fld "ff"
end mouseUp

[richmond62]

It has been a busy Wednesday so far, but I have managed to implement the Ethiopic Numbers:
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And the 3 buttons on the right-hand side can be used to shuttle between the 3 groups.

Now we will need 2 buttons to shuttle between Base Consonantals and Vowels:
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Here's the group "CONSONANTS" (I have a white border showing ONLY for illustration purposes:
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Aha: so we now have VOWEL keys in place, and 2 additional fields (everything in the turquoise areas of the stack will not be visible to end users) for carry across the components for building our conjunct consonant + vowels combinations:
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This section of the VOWELS button assembles the base consonants in the fBUILDER field and packs them into the fBUILT field to the right:
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Now the VOWEL buttons are ready as they put the necessary symbol into the VVV field:
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The stack is now ready for an extremely long SWITCH statement contained in the Card Script to do the 'knitting' to reference all the conjunct consonants stored in the Abyssinia font.

[richmond62]

Here's a quick peep into the Book of Enoch, a book only found in the Ethiopian Bible:
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Needless to say, I cheat and read all 3 books of Enoch (as well as Jubilees) in English translation here:
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https://archive.org/details/the-old-tes ... worth-1983

https://archive.org/details/the-old-tes ... t-and-lege

[richmond62]

The Facebook Home for Sheba:Makeda is here:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566453370468
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The Unicode consortium have, in their infinite wisdom (which serves only to confuse me), decided to use a different rule for vowel transcrition to the standard used by everyone else.

So I have run up a little table to make things a bit easier:
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The first thing is that we have to modify the Base Consonantal buttons so that 'bare' syllabics can be entered directly into the "fOUTPUT" field.

By a 'bare' syllabic I mean a consonant form with its inherent 'a' form.

We can use the SHIFT key on our keyboard to effect this:
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If the SHIFT key is depressed when a consonantal is entered its 'bare form is entered directly into the OUTPUT field.

If the SHIFT key is NOT depressed the consonantal and " + " is added to the BUILDER field.

Now let's use the ALT/OPT key to decide if we want to form a consonantal cluster or not:
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If the ALT/OPT key is depressed when a consonantal is entered the consonantal buttons remain visible to add another consonantal to the BUILDER field to help construct a consonantal cluster.

If the ALT/OPT key is NOT depressed when a consonantal is entered the consonantal buttons become invisible and the vowel buttons become visible.

That new 'mouseUp' must be propagated across ALL the base consonantal keys . . .

[richmond62]

Now we need to build up a SWITCH statement in the cardScript so that when a VOWEL key is pressed the stack can "Do the knitting" and work out which of the very many Ge'ez/Ethiopic glyphs to place after whatever else may already be in the OUTPUT field.
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Here's the start of the SWITCH statement:
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command KNITTING
   if fld "VVV" is not empty then
      put fld "VVV" into VVVX
      put VVVX after fld "fBUILT"
   end if
   switch the text of fld "fBUILT"
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & numToCodePoint(604)) 
         put numToCodePoint(4608) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & "u") 
         put numToCodePoint(4609) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & "i") 
         put numToCodePoint(4610) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & "a") 
         put numToCodePoint(4611) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & "e") 
         put numToCodePoint(4612) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & numToCodePoint(601)) 
         put numToCodePoint(4613) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
      case (numToCodePoint(4608) & "o") 
         put numToCodePoint(4614) after fld "fOUTPUT"
         break
   end switch
   put empty into fld "VVV"
   put empty into fld "fBUILT"
end KNITTING

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No: Coca-Cola is NOT part of my agenda.