Graphite fontmaker for CJ shorthand?

[Dave Robertson]

Hello,

I was just following up on a mention of FLEX by a visiting scholar, Natasha 
Warner.  That's SIL's newest dictionary-making software, which she and a 
California tribe are using to make a dictionary of Mutsun.  (Judging by a 
screen shot of hers, it looks like FLEX shows you a preview of the entire 
dictionary entry as it will look when printed; nice.)  

In the pages relating to that software is mention of a fontmaking 
application, Graphite.  Here's a link to a page that interested me:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?
site_id=nrsi&item_id=CmplxRndExamples

It appears as though this software is able to handle complicated writing 
systems like CJ shorthand.  I bet it would still take a devoted maniac (=IT 
guy) to use.  Anyway, I'm interested to know whether any of you has 
experience with Graphite, or knows the word on the street.

There's a thoughtfully provided list of links on the above page to sites 
that discuss Graphite, but I haven't had time to read all of them.

--Dave R

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