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)