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Here are some (IMO) silly/potentially interesting tech projects in the Toki Pona world: --- ilo nanpa - a calculator using the Toki Pona number system https:/

Here are some (IMO) silly/potentially interesting tech projects in the Toki Pona world: --- ilo nanpa - a calculator using the Toki Pona number system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWCLg4H_4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWCLg4H_4U --- linja pona - a font for the Sitelen Pona hieroglyphic system with fancy character combination logic (goes way beyond the limits of my rudimentary font knowledge) - the text is all entered in latin but the font automatically converts toe Sitelen Pona (if you try copy/paste some text from the second site linked somewhere else you'll see it). https://github.com/davidar/linja-pona https://github.com/davidar/linja-pona https://davidar.github.io/tp/ https://davidar.github.io/tp/ a website made with it. --- I worked on a R-Pi based word processor computer thing with a custom keyboard/case/input system for the same writing system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nYoi2dAk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nYoi2dAk4 (I ad enough time with quarantine to get it finished this week, but it's not properly documented anywhere yet ). --- There's also been a long-standing effort to get the language an ISO code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona#History ). "In 2008 an application for an ISO 639-3 code was rejected, with a statement that the language was too young.[22] Another request was rejected in 2018 as the language "does not appear to be used in a variety of domains nor for communication within a community which includes all ages".[23]" --- For anyone interested in learning but too cheap/broke to get the official book (http://tokipona.org http://tokipona.org), the next best thing (in my educated opinion) is the course of jan Pije: http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php .

aasasd 7y ago
> goes way beyond the limits of my rudimentary font knowledge - the text is all entered in latin but the font automatically converts toe Sitelen Pona It most likely utilizes ligatures—like when you write ‘ff’ or ‘fi’, the letters are joined into a custom glyph (in proper software and context), so this font does the same for custom longer sequences. This is popular lately with programming fonts and such.
- jan_Inkepa 7y ago
  Yip, it uses ligatures, but it also has a system where you can say put a box around text by using the underscore character w/ square braces ("[_mi_pilin]" has the "mi" and "pilin" characters with a cartouche around them, like on the second line of the linked page below), and also I think does dynamic compounding of characters (see the current complete character list here - https://davidar.github.io/linja-pona/nimi https://davidar.github.io/linja-pona/nimi - I haven’t asked the author how they did it, but my guess is that there’s something fun/dynamic going on).

aasasd 7y ago

> goes way beyond the limits of my rudimentary font knowledge - the text is all entered in latin but the font automatically converts toe Sitelen Pona It most likely utilizes ligatures—like when you write ‘ff’ or ‘fi’, the letters are joined into a custom glyph (in proper software and context), so this font does the same for custom longer sequences. This is popular lately with programming fonts and such.

jan_Inkepa 7y ago
Yip, it uses ligatures, but it also has a system where you can say put a box around text by using the underscore character w/ square braces ("[_mi_pilin]" has the "mi" and "pilin" characters with a cartouche around them, like on the second line of the linked page below), and also I think does dynamic compounding of characters (see the current complete character list here - https://davidar.github.io/linja-pona/nimi https://davidar.github.io/linja-pona/nimi - I haven’t asked the author how they did it, but my guess is that there’s something fun/dynamic going on).