Re: Why does German favor long compound words?

Dylan Sung wrote:

"Mike Wright" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:12lk5c3i7sapteb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What I'm really looking for at this point is something like Pulleyblank's EMC/LMC/EM list with Old Chinese readings added, or

I haven't got Pulleyblank's book, so I don't know what that may be like.

instead of the EM readings. Actually, the rime groups that Chou has included could be useful, too. Boltz makes quite a bit of use of those to evaluate character phonetic correspondences.

There don't seem to be any copies on abebooks.com. I thought I'd noticed a Hong Kong Univ. page for it while rambling through Google entries, but now I don't see it. Is it still in publication?

I don't know. The copy of Chou Fakou's book is dated 1989, with a copyright going back to 1974.

By the way, the Mojikyo info that you put up a while back is very nice. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have produced a Unicode version of their fonts, and I don't think the Mac OS X input routines work with Shift JIS any more (though I'd love to learn that I'm wrong).

Still, the GIFs will be useful if I ever update my Chinese Genesis site.

You can generate a listing of all the gif versions of the characters they have on the site fairly simply if you analyse the directory numbers and gif numbers carefully. Unfortunately, the Mojikyo characters are listed in their version of 'radicals', which I've found unhelpful at times. You still end up wading through them to find the one you want, and there are variants which don't appear which you will find in the Jiaguwen Zidian I mailed you...

And maybe when I move to North Carolina, I'll set up my old OS 9-based iMac just for the Mojikyo fonts.

You're moving again?

Can't afford Texas property taxes. More Old-Timey music there, too, which is what I'm moving toward. I have a little Bluegrass jam session each week, but it's hard to find Old-Timey players.

I may have my meteorological data mixed up, but isn't that in Tornada Alley?

I'm thinking about Asheville, up in the mountains. North Texas is a much more likely place to encounter tornados.

I've downloaded Mojikyo M117 and M118. They're both too large to be worked with in Fontographer. I wonder if it's possible to programmatically rearrange a font's cmap (character-to-glyph mapping table) to switch it from Shift JIS to Unicode. I used to do that with PFB files back when we were first converting our Mac PostScript Type 3 fonts to work under Windows 1.0.0.

The fonts look awful in a low size. The 72 point setting and you see its drawn with straightish lines...

But there are lots of straightish lines in Oracle Bone characters...

Are they worse than the ones at, for example, <http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/uclib/bones/ob12.htm>?

From the number of control points I see in Fontographer, I suspect that the font was generated automatically from images. One problem with outline fonts of Oracle Bone characters is that it's hard to optimize the shapes without possibly making them too unrealistic. Also, it's hand work, which could be a drag with that many characters.

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