Graphite fontmaker for CJ shorthand?

[Leanne Riding]

Thanks David, will look into this on the weekend.
Leanne

Dave Robertson wrote:
> 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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