Re: VMs: Re: Transcription Ramble

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Landini wrote:

> But <i> and <n> need to be separate characters because they also occur on 
> their own. So let's suppose that <iin> is now called M. How do you write 
> <okan>? The inconsistency therefore becomes that the <n> in <iin> looks the 
> same as the last character in <okan> yet they are coded differently, thus 
> contradicting the principle 'show exactly what it looks like'.
I imagine that the reason the Currier transcription uses different 
symbols for <in>, <iin>, and <iiin> was that most letters other than 
"i"  do not repeat two or three times. Perhaps a more appropriate 
approach which is consistent with Gabriel's point would be to have 
symbols for <i>, <ii>, and <iii> and to transcribe <iiin> as <iii><n>  
and so on.

Bruce



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