sitelen pona versions

[alifeee]

please read this thread for context: https://discord.com/channels/795288348024373289/1220965092456271933

if you are feeling helpful, please summarise the above thread into bullet points of:

• why is making a sitelen pona version hard?
• what is involved when making a sitelen pona version?
• what should be done to make it easier?

[theflyinggriffin]

It looks like the biggest issue mentioned in the thread is needing a font that has all of the obscure glyphs. I think this is solved by both of these fonts:

https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/sitelenselikiwen/
https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfaxponahd/

which seem to have everything you could ever want.

other issues I can think of include:

• Generating a cartouche for names would be obnoxious by hand
• Ignoring everything in parenthesis would be hard with any font that has ligatures that convert Latin text into glyphs

Based on these issues, I am building a tool to convert the text directly into unicode characters for the versions of the fonts above that don't have ligatures. It will:

• convert Capitalized names into cartouches using predefined glyphs for each letter
• ignore numbers, white space, and text enclosed in parenthesis
• not use any compound glyphs (for now)

[diego-est]

toki a! It seems that the link to the thread no longer works, which means I am not sure what the overarching context for this is. However, today I found out that just changing the font for the text in scribus will automatically render the sitelen pona.

Steps

1. Put an otf file of whichever font you want: nasin nanpa font in your project directory.

• Maybe it would be a good idea to have a /fonts directory in the project directory to keep the project directory clean of the font files.

2. Go to File > Preferences > Fonts > Additional Fonts and add the directory where you just put the otf font.
3. Change the font in "Content Properties" for whichever text frame you want to convert.

I mentioned nasin-nanpa because I find it aesthetically pleasing but I have tried this with other fonts like linja lipamanka and it also works.

P.S.

There's a chance that, since I can't read the thread you all mentioned, this was already discussed. However I still want to help out in whatever I can to convert the issues into sitelen pona. Since this bug tracker is linked to directly on liputenpo.org it would also be beneficial to have a short "How to convert to sitelen pona" in here for other people that would like to contribute.

Happy new years!