William Overington
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The article linked below contains some information about Wesley Bintz in relation to an earlier pool elsewhere.
J.H. Moores Memorial Natatorium - Wikipedia
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Looking back through the posts it seems to me that I need a language-independent glyph for the meaning that in English is expressed using the word 'sometimes'.
I need to think about such a design. I assign code %883 for the glyph with that meaning.
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HideReferring to an earlier post in this thread,
On 5/5/2021 at 9:59 AM, William Overington said:So, with the recipe for sixty abstract emoji characters explained, there needs a method to use them.
For research purposes, and maybe for long-term practical use, a Mariposa System encoding can be used.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm
Suppose that we introduce two parameters, U (for upper) and L (for lower).
For question, let U=1
For pointer, let U=2
For indefinite, let U=3
For universal, let U=4
For negative, let U=5
For pointer nearby, let U=9, so that the same technique is used, but somewhat separate from the others as it is not part of that collection as such.
Let values of L go from 0 through to 9 for the lower parts in the order in which they are dissplayed in this thread, which is the same order as in the table in the linked document.
Then each of these emoji may be referenced by a code of the format
%8UL
The figure 8 being chosen as it has both an upper part and a lower part.
So, for example, the abstract emoji displayed two posts previously, is encoded in The Mariposa System as
%845
as the upper part has U=4 and the lower part has L=5 so, using %8 as the start of the sequence, the encoding is
%845
An OpenType font with a suitable GSUB glyph substitution statement encoded as if the abstract emoji glyph is a ligature (using the OpenType liga table) gives access to the glyph in a suitable application program, with a graceful fallback display in non-OpenType applications or without use of a suitable font or with ligatures turned off..
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By referring to the list linked from the following post earlier in this thread,
the glyph accessed by the code %845 can be found to have the meaning, when expressed in English, as follows.
always
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Here is a link to the post that has the link to the list of words in Esperanto.
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Regarding my choice of the codes %881 and %882, these are chosen so as to be compatible with the codes for some earlier designs,
those being compatible with the codes used for designs in the documents linked from the following web page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm
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Here is a design to mean
however
and here is a design to mean
because
The design to mean
however
is inspired by the first letter of the Latin word Tamen and then the idea that the word 'however' is used after stating something then either going back a bit in the opposite direction or going in another direction.
For experimental use from an OpenType font, the code %881 is suggested.
The design to mean
because
is inspired by the word 'because' being used after stating something so as to state clarification of the first thing that was stated, so I have used an equals sign followed by a second, linked, yet subsidiary, equals sign.
For experimental use from an OpenType font, the code %882 is suggested.
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Alas, no replies yet, maybe there never will be.
Yet 318 views of the thread, and 27 downloads of the poster.
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Researchers Discovered a New 13-Sided Shape (popularmechanics.com)
> It's time for that bathroom remodel.
Well, I suppose that if one is going to pottery class.
Make one, maybe with a raised stem and berries on it, make a plaster mould from it, make lots of tiles.
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i have only seen this thread today.
Thinking about it, I wonder if there is a regular hexagon that could be placed over the shape such that an equal area of this shape is inside that regular hexagon as is outside it. So, much like underlying it all is an array of regular hexagons, so sort of like many jigsaw puzzles are effectively a pattern of squares.
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The tiles do not seem to be all identical.
Could you possibly consider having some smiling and some with other detail changes please?
I like the way the large bubbles are produced.
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This present thread will thrive only if forum members other than me post in it, otherwise it will drift away into the archive.
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The first two downloads are my tests.
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An idea that I thought of this morning.
A version of the poster with a blank panel where a localization of the poem into any chosen language can be handwritten.
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2 hours ago, prophet said:
I keep viewing this thread to get it out of my "Unread Content" feed.
I hope that you like the A3 poster. You may make a colour print if you so choose.
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The first download is by me, to check it has uploaded correctly.
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Here is a PDF document I have produced. It is A3 portrait format and is ready to print and it has a 3 mm bleed area on each edge.
This is adapted from the original French version, of which I have five prints on 350 gsm paper, which is fairly rigid card,
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So 47 replies and a thousand views.
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Oh, I took that about uploading to other places to refer to "top shelf stuff" in a newsagents, not the harmless stuff that I produce.
Not that I look at it, but I remember the days before a well-known newsagents chain got embarrassed by complaints from women going into the shops and complaining about was on display for they and children to be subjected to viewing and the frosty wrappered magazines became the practice.
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I can imagine Edith giving you one her looks!William
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19 hours ago, John Rostron said:
I asked this question, and was given the answer of a simple Publisher document.
My answer was as follows.
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A PDF document produced using Affinity Publisher.
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That is not the same type of document.
Also, I did not use the word "simple".
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1 hour ago, v_kyr said:
All in all, it seems to me that something is only being posted here desperately to achieve some communication, ...
You are almost absolutely right, that is a good part of my reason for posting, but not the only part, it is intended as a genuine discussion, but, yes, basically you are correct.
1 hour ago, v_kyr said:maybe out of boredom, or the lack of interlocutors, or the like. - In short, for me personally, this is not a presentation of anything that reflects the relevance and capabilities of the Affinity products or their possibilities (or the graphics and/or layout skills of the author in this context) here, in contrast to many other postings in this forum section!
But not boredom. Nor lack of interlocutors either. But for a very good reason which I am not going to state in public.
But are you agreeing that "The invitation at the beginning of the Share Your Work forum invites members to offer their designs for appraisal." because I could not find that text. I found no mention of appraisal.
Maybe it needs a nice lady to post LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE's A NICE MAN AND I FANCY HIM.
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1 hour ago, Alfred said:
It’s interesting to note that L.L. Zamenhof is described as the “founder” of Esperanto, rather than its inventor.
So described in the wikipedia article at least. I do not have my copy of The Life of Zamenhof (in English) to hand.
William
North Foreland Lighthouse
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The following may be of interest to readers.
North Foreland - Wikipedia
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