Re: Summary of Some Revisions to the Revisions
Dr Maggie Hellstrom, Lund 
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:57:17 +0100 (MET)

Hallo, everybody!

After reading the weekend's posts on transcriptions, I have a feeling
I want to change my vote (if that's allowed ;-) - the situation is a
bit confusing though, with the alternatives changing/being modified all
the time, but that might not be such a bad thing?

At the moment, I'm more leaning towards what Saul labeled as "B" in his
recent post, but I "hate" the notion of using "f" to represent <wh>/<w~> -
the only convenience I see in that is the ability to map the corresponding
Vulcan font character to the "f" key on a keyboard... (That's actually
another thing that one might want to fold into the discussion - when I 
adapted Rob's Vulcan characters to a TrueType font last year, I ran into
a lot of problems deciding which key to assign to what character to make
the thing as logical as possible! Of course, that will all have to be
changed/revised after the current transcription issue is settled...)

So, to summarize: my vote would probably go to Saul's "B" alternative, 
with the provision that "wh" or "w~" be used - the tilde character (~)
is available in most keyboard character sets, so I think one could use
it in transcriptions.

Dr Maggie
[Hoping her soccer-crazed neighbors will calm down now that the World Cup
is finally over...]