organise files

index.html

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
   <!-- Scripts and stylings -->
   <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
   <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
-  <script src="breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
-  <script src="sort-table.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
+  <script src="script/sort-table.js"></script>
 
-  <script src="glossmygloss.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/glossmygloss.js"></script>
 
   <!-- Fonts -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

ipa-keyboard.html

@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
   <!-- Scripts and stylings -->
   <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
   <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
-  <script src="breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
-  <script src="sort-table.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
+  <script src="script/sort-table.js"></script>
 
-  <script src="xipa.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/ipa-keyboard.js"></script>
 
   <!-- Fonts -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ <h1>IPA Keyboard and X-Sampa Converter</h1>
          <input type="button" id="clearButton" value="Clear" onclick="ClearFields();" class="ipa-output-button"/>
       </div>
 
-      <textarea id="sampaBox" onkeyup="TranslateSAMPA()" placeholder="X-SAMPA"></textarea>
+      <textarea rows="1" id="sampaBox" onkeyup="TranslateSAMPA()" placeholder="X-SAMPA"></textarea>
 
       <div id="symbolsUsed">
          <span id="symbolsList"></span>

lexifer.html

@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@
   <!-- Scripts and stylings -->
   <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
   <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
-  <script src="breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
-  <script src="sort-table.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/breadcrumbs.js"></script>  
+  <script src="script/sort-table.js"></script>
 
-  <script src="lexifer/cm6.bundle.js"></script>
-  <script src="lexifer/lexifer.js"></script>
-  <script src="lexifer/lexifer-examples.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/cm6.bundle.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/lexifer.js"></script>
+  <script src="script/lexifer-examples.js"></script>
 
   <!-- Fonts -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ <h1>Lexifer Online</h1>
 
       <div id="editor"></div>
 
-      <script src="lexifer/lexifer-buttons.js"></script>
+      <script src="script/lexifer-buttons.js"></script>
 
 	    <div class="switch-field">
         <input type="submit" id="genWords" name="lexiferButton" value="Generate words">

rw.py

@@ -1,66 +1,49 @@
 import markdown
 
 
+output = markdown.markdown(
 
+    '''
+I have given some advice on con-scripting in the past in various threads, but I think it would be nice to assemble everything in one easily-accessible place and go into greater detail on all the points that I think are important. So, without further ado, here is my list of suggestions for designing a constructed script.
 
-output = markdown.markdown(
+###Step 1: Choose a direction
+
+Scripts can be written in a number of directions. The reason it's important to choose a direction early on is because it can affect the shape of your glyphs and how they interact with each other.
+
+The most basic directions are:
+
+####left-to-right, top-to-bottom
+The majority of world scripts are written in this direction. The Roman alphabet follows this direction.
+
+####right-to-left, top-to-bottom
+This is common in middle-eastern scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew, and many ancient scripts associated with that area.
+
+####top-to-bottom, right-to-left
+This is the traditional writing direction for East Asian languages, though nowadays, left-to-right, top-to-bottom is also very commonly used.
+
+####top-to-bottom, left-to-right
+This is used for some scripts, such as Mongolian.
+
+####bottom-to-top
+This is extremely uncommon, but there are existing real-world scripts that were written vertically. Both left-to-right and right-to-left examples exist.
+
+If you are starting out, I recommend picking something basic from the above list. However, there are more complex directions as well, though they are all variations of the above basic forms. They include:
+
+####(Partially) diagonal horizontal
+The Nastaliq form of Arabic script, which is the standard form of writing Urdu, is I think unique in the world by being written in occasionally overlapping diagonals. The letters are connected to each other in a string that moves gradually downward, and when a new word is started, the beginning of the word often appears above the ending of the previous word in order to fill up space and make it more aesthetically pleasing.
+
+####Boustrophedon
+This is when lines of text are alternately written left-to-right and then right-to-left. This may be accompanied by a 180° rotation of the glyphs, a result of the writing surface having been rotated in the scribe's hands. For obvious reasons, no modern scripts are written this way, but if you are creating an ancient script, it could be an option.
+
+####Mixed directionality
+Some scripts are written in more than one direction at the same time. For example, Many (but by no means all) Mayan inscriptions were written left to right, but only in pairs; after two glyphs, a new line is started below the previous one, leading to columns two glyphs wide.
+
+[img]http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/other/mayasample.jpg[/img]
+
+Sumerian Cuneiform was similarly written with mixed directionality. Phrases or sentences were written horizontally left-to-right within cells, but the cells were arranged vertically.
 
-'''
-# A guide to small consonant inventories
-                           
-...mostly in the form of an inventory dump. By 'small' I mean 12 or fewer consonants, which isn't completely arbitrary since the smallest consonant inventory in Europe (Finnish) has 13, if you ignore the glottal stop and all the loan phonemes.
-
-Inventory dump:
-
-There are a number of things you can do in small consonant inventories.
-
-**Voicing in plosives**:
-
-May be totally absent, as in the Polynesian languages (sometimes they have /v/ but I grouped that as a form of /w/).
-May be fully present, as in Xavante or Rotokas.
-May be present for only some of the plosives. Note that you can eliminate voicing contrasts for any one POA, though if you eliminate it only in the labials, you'll end up with /b/, not /p/. Piraha, Awa, and Tigak have /p b t k g/ with no /d/; I'm guessing it became /r/. (Iau /d/ is notable within the Lakes-Plain languages for *not* allowing flapping of /d/ -- most of them do.)
-Some of these languages have /g/ with no /b d/; this seems to come from lenition processes, where either p t k or b d g > w r g -- so g fails to lenite but the other plosives do. This happened in Ikpeng (where lenition applied intervocalically and /k/ redeveloped through cluster loss) and also in Rotokas though it doesn't show up on the chart -- /b d/ are usually [β ɾ] but I don't know if /g/ lenites.)
-
-**POAs**:
-May have no labials, as with Oneida and Tuscarora. Comanche is the only language here to have both labials and /kʷ/, but it's spoken in the general vicinity of languages with /kʷ/ and no labials.
-Xavante and Tahitian have no velars. I'm guessing /k/ backed to /ʔ/ in Tahitian and /k g/ fronted in Xavante, but I don't know.
-It is not necessarily the case that you need three stop POAs. Abau only has /p k/.
-Samoan merged its alveolars into velars, except /l/. Chain shift in the stops: t :> k > ʔ. It already had /ŋ/ when /n/ merged into it though.
-Affricates only appear in American languages in this sample. Most of the American languages made it onto the list by having no labials.
-Maximum of three non-glottal POAs except in Bandjalang, which is the only Australian language here.
-
-**Fricatives**:
-Bandjalang has the largest inventory here with no fricatives, and it's Australian.
-The presence of fricatives usually implies /h/, but some have /s/ as their only fricative. If there's a fricative that isn't /s/, there's also /h/ -- except in Cubeo, which only has /x/. If there's /f/, there's usually /s h/; the only exceptions are Polynesian, except Sentani, which is Papuan, and Koiari, which for some bizarre reason has /ð/.
-None of these languages has more than three fricatives, unless you count Polynesian /v/ as a fricative. Tuscarora has /θ s h/, Seneca has /s ʃ h/, and Koiari has /f ð h/, but the most common three-fricative inventory by far is /f s h/. /x/ doesn't appear in any of these languages except Cubeo.
-
-**The glottal stop**:
-Not as necessary as you might think: about a third of the languages here don't have it. Of the ones that do, some (Polynesian) got it through debuccalization of another plosive.
-
-**Nasals**:
-Nasals actually do not imply /n/. Samoan is not anymore the only language here to have nasals without /n/, and it merged its alveolars into velars.
-/ŋ/ implies /m/. /p n/ also imply /m/.
-Many of the languages here with missing nasals are Amazonian languages with a full inventory of nasal vowels -- nasals are allophones of voiced stops around nasal vowels. In Piraha, nasals [m n] are allophones of /b g/ word-initially. In Keuw, voiced stops vary freely with nasals, and voiceless stops can be freely prenasalized. Rotokas and Iau really do have no nasals.
-
-**Liquids**:
-Surprisingly, /w/ (or /v/) is more common than /j/ -- the only language with /j/ and no /w/ is Maxakali.
-Ekari has a velar lateral affricate /gʟ/.
-/l r/ contrast is more common than you might think, even in these small inventories. It's really not that European a feature.
-
-**Iau**:
-...is worthy of special mention here for being probably the most phonologically bizarre language on the planet. It has six consonants, /b t d k f s/. /f/ is [ɸ~h] word-initially, but is [x] preceding /i/; word-medially it's [h]; and word-finally (/f/ is the only consonant that can occur word-finally) it's an unreleased stop [p]. /b d/ vary with nasals, and can be implosive before /ã/; /d/ can also be [l], but is never flapped.
-There are eight vowels: /ã æ~ɛ ɪ i ɔ ʊ u/ and a fricated vowel /i̝/. /ã/ is always nasalized.
-Despite all this, most words are monosyllabic -- and the reason Iau can pull this off is that, well, not only does it have eight tones (two level and six contour), it has tone clusters -- more than one tone can appear on a word. There is an extensive system of tone-based verbal derivation:
-tai2 'pull'
-tai3 'has been pulled off'
-tai21 'might pull'
-tai43 'land on'
-tai24 'fell to ground'
-tai23 'fall to ground (incompletive)'
-tai34 'pull off'
-tai243 'falling to ground (durative)'
-tai21-34 'pull on, shake' (nb: two *different* contour tones)
-tai21-3 'have pulled on, have shaken'
+####Variable directionality
+Many scripts could be written in more than one direction. Ancient Egyptian was variably written in all sorts of directions, while Modern Chinese and Japanese are frequently written both horizontally left-to-right and vertically right-to-left.
 ''')
 
-print(output)
+print(output)