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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Art & Literature → Tengwar
There is an interesting thread about Tengwar in the Unicode public mailing list at present.
The posts are available in the archive.
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … /date.html
It is possible, yet not certain, that more posts will be made and become archived.
William
It is possible, yet not certain, that more posts will be made and become archived.
Isn’t that “possible, yet not certain” in relation to every thread? 
No.
However, for this thread it was possible. and in the event there have been more posts.
You might perhaps like the post that I sent in this evening.
William
The thread goes on.
A number of new posts have appeared during the United Kingdom night.
William
William, I looked at your "poem in an ellipse" in a link you posted, and thought that the words, in your glyphs, might look nice in a circle like a clock face, or a decorated dinner plate.
I had to process each glyph individually, so I selected just the first few, and made the design I append. A bit naïf as a design, but merely to illustrate my point.
William, I looked at your "poem in an ellipse" in a link you posted, and thought that the words, in your glyphs, might look nice in a circle like a clock face, or a decorated dinner plate.
I had to process each glyph individually, so I selected just the first few, and made the design I append. A bit naïf as a design, but merely to illustrate my point.
Thank you.
A nice design.
I like the idea of the plates.
Ultimately such plates could be made, though it might need a large order.
I wonder if there is a facility for doing one-off production, like one can obtain one-off customized drinks mugs.
Ah yes.
https://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/personalis … plate.aspx
The font is available from the following web page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … search.htm
I have attached a file containing the characters of the text of the poem.
It will need use of the font.
In the picture I used 20 point with a colour of (r, g, b) = (197, 204, 123)
William
Subsequently edited, just to attach the file
I suppose that if I try to write a poem that has twelve glyphs, none used more than once, with three glyphs per season, then the glyphs could be used instead of numbers, for a clock.
William
I have attached a file containing the characters of the text of the poem.
I don’t see an attachment, William. Am I looking in the wrong place?
William wrote:I have attached a file containing the characters of the text of the poem.
I don’t see an attachment, William. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Oh. Two files now. One for the poem that Jack mentioned. One for a clock.
William
Alfred wrote:William wrote:I have attached a file containing the characters of the text of the poem.
I don’t see an attachment, William. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Oh. Two files now. One for the poem that Jack mentioned. One for a clock.
William
It looks like it might be one attached file per post.
William
I exported the files from WordPad as Unicode Text Document files.
So they are two bytes per character, UTF-16 with a Byte Order Mark at the start.
This is using a research font, the glyphs are encoded as characters in the Unicode Private Use Area.
William
As these poems go through the year, some readers might like this collection of illustrations that go through the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A8s … ar_gallery
William
Going back on-topic, there are some more posts in the thread about Tengwar in the archive of the Unicode mailing list.
William
This thread has passed into the areas of unicode, LS sentence glyphs and detail design and use of specific software.
Can it be guided back into its overall heading areas of Arts and Literature, which may be of greater general interest? Please.
Perhaps Alfred could split the thread into two threads please?
Each post going into one of the two threads as Alfred considers best.
William
I’ve split off the posts that discuss the technical aspects of clock face design and I’ve moved them to here.
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