home / Blog menu ↓

I guess I’m in an article-writing mood (I wrote Feeding the Hand That Feeds You this morning). The more I look at the word “feed,” the funnier it looks. Anyway, last night I went to the screening for Handcart. I liked it. It’s about the Mormon handcart trek out to Utah (the Martin handcart company to be specific). I’d never realized just how hard it would be to leave your dead family members there on the plains, buried under the cold snow. My respect for the pioneers skyrocketed after seeing that movie.

Finally finished typesetting An Icelandic Primer. I used mpage to put two pages onto one sheet (reducing the size to 92 pages) and I’m printing it out right now so I can proof it. It’s very, very nice.

I added the Thai page. Right now I’m going through all the Thai fonts I can find to see which ones are best (and which ones support Unicode). I also started working on a Thai alphabet chart (in OpenOffice, using the Garuda font). It’s coming along pretty well. Tomorrow I’ll find an IPA font that works well with Times New Roman…