$TAB: (8) Introduction Character Table Some notes History Future Introduction: The KApIqaD typeface is a font for writing klingon with the alphabet adopted by Klingon Language Institute (and accepted as canon by most other klingonists). The font contains the entire (Klingon) alphabet (known as "pIqaD") with the following letters (in alphabetical order). a, b, ch, D, e, gh, H, I, j, l, m, n, ng, o, p, q, Q, r, S, t, tlh, u, v, w, y, ' Also the numbers 0-9 have been included, as well as the much debated and controversial punctuation marks that occurs on the SkyBox Trading Cards. Finally, although technically not signs of writing, the symbols of the Klingon Empire and Klingonska Akademien have been included in this font. Character Table: Alphabet: Numerals: Key: Glyph: Key: Glyph: a (A) a 0 ()) 0 b (B) b 1 (!) 1 c (C) ch 2 (@) 2 d (D) D 3 (#) 3 e (E) e 4 ($) 4 f (F) ng 5 (%) 5 g (G) gh 6 (^) 6 h (H) H 7 (&) 7 i (I) I 8 (*) 8 j (J) j 9 (() 9 k (K) q l (L) l m (M) m Punctuation: n (N) n Key: Glyph: o (O) o space space p (P) p _ (n/a) non­breaking space q (Q) q , (n/a) ,;: (from SkyBox) r (R) r . (n/a) .?! (from SkyBox) s (S) S t (T) t u (U) u Other: v (V) v Key: Glyph: w (W) w > (Z) Klingon Empire (From StarTrekPi) x (X) tlh < (n/a) Klingonska Akademien y (Y) y z (') ' This table lists all glyphs and their mapping. Key given within paranthesis is the corresponding mapping in the KLIpIqaDmey typeface (note that KApIqaD and KLIpIqaDmey are not compatible). Some notes: This font is based on parts of the Klingon Language Institute's typeface "KLIpIqaDmey". Some extra glyphs have been added, and all glyphs have been been rearranged to be more easily accessible. KLIpIqaDmey is a nice typeface with a few obvious disadvantages, such as; the fact that the obsolete Mandel character set is the easiest accessibe, while the "true" {pIqaD} have been stuffed in there more as an extra than as the main character set. The KLIpIqaDmey uses the special characters available on the shifted number keys (exlcamation mark, at, number sign etc.) to achieve the Klingon numerals. This is *not* a good idea, since it demands that the U.S. Qwerty keyboard layout is used for the placement of the numerals to be correct. On any other keyboard layout this becomes an annoyance. KLIpIqaDmey lacks the newer punctuation marks found in the SkyBox Trading Cards. There are some {pIqaD} fonts available from the Klingon Language Institute, Unlike KLI's "KLIpIqaDmey" this typeface only contains *one* Klingon alphabet - pIqaD. (The old Mandel alphabet is not well suited for Klingon anyway. [for details see HolQeD 1:1 p.18]) This font uses only lower case letters (so you will have to write you I's and S's small too). Also all polygraphs have been changed, which also is the case for {q} and the glottal stop. Some of them are pretty straightforward (such as c={ch}, g={gh} and k={q} while q={Q}) but some are not (f={ng} and x={tlh}). The glottal stop has been placed on the "z" (instead of the expected aphostrophe) simply to avoid the frustration that may occur due to the fact that most modern word processors interfere with the useage of apostrophes - replacing them with "typographically correct" versions (thus effectively preventing one from writing this sign correctly). I've also added the two punctuation marks used on the SkyBox Trading Cards, as has been suggested to me by Nick Nicholas, one of those who helped restore the Hamlet to the original version. Typing the "greater" and "less" signs causes the symbols for the Klingon Empire and Klingonska Akademien to be used. History: V0.5ß: [1999­10­27] o Made the kerning pairs beginning with Klingonska Akademien's symbol. V0.4ß: [1999­10­26] o Made the kerning pairs ending in Klingonska Akademien's symbol. o Created and added Klingonska Akademien's symbol. V0.3ß: [1999­10­24] o Made space somewhat larger. o Corrected the path directions. V0.2ß: [1999­10­24] o Made kerning data for comma and period. o General cleanup of (found) weird kerning pairs. o Made kerning data for the numbers glyphs (it was previously lacking). V0.1ß: [1999­10­22] o Made kerning data for the StarTrekPi's Klingon Empire symbol. o Copied Klingon Empire symbol from the StarTrekPi typeface (canon version). o Copied period and comma from an old version of this font. o Copied the kerning pairs from the original KLIpIqaDmey typeface. o Copied the glyphs (a-z [including glottal stop], 0-9 and Klingon Empire Symbol) from KLIpIqaDmey. Future: o Write a proper documentation (this consists of pieces of older docs). President of Klingonska Akademien Björn X Öqvist Uppsala, 1999­10­26 With special thanks Nick Nicholas, who originally brought the SkyBox punctuation signs to my attention. ==================================================================== Infofile to older version of the font: ==================================================================== This typeface is produced with my own purposes in mind. Basically it is made for use in the printed version of "The Canon Klingon Dictionary," a pocket sized Klingon-English/English dictionary produced by The Klingon Academy, here in Sweden. Basically the keyboard layout follows the guidelines for the Klingon transliteration system given by Marc Okrand in "The Klingon Dictionary". However there are some exceptions: o Klingon {ch} is placed on the "c" key. o Klingon {ng} is placed on the "f" key. o Klingon {gh} is placed on the "g" key. o Klingon {q} is placed on the "k" key. o Klingon {tlh} is placed on the "x" key. o Klingon {'} is placed on the "z" key. o Klingon {.} is placed on the "!", "?" and "." keys. o Klingon {,} is placed on the ":", ";" and "," keys. o The Klingon Empire symbol is placed on the "@" key. o Roman "-" is placed on the "-" key. o Roman (lowered) "~" is placed on the "~" key. o Roman "*" is placed on the "*" key. The placement of {'} was changed in respect to KLI's font because many programs substitute the quotes with "typographically correct" such, thus not displaying the right glyph. Since I use a lot of different computers and platforms (my own Amiga, friend's PCs and Macintoshes and the University's Sun Stations) I prefer this placement. The Klingon half and full stop (comma and period) were both placed on several punctuation mark keys. The Klingons themself most surely do not distinguish the difference since it is pretty obvious in languange syntax anyway. The (Roman) symbols "-" (hypen) "~" (tilde) and "*" (asterisk) were included for useage in "The Canon Klingon Dictionary". Hypen is there used to denote an affix (whether prefix or suffix is determined by placement before or after). Tilde indicate the current word, and the asterisk preceedes gramatically incorrect or non­existant example words and phrases. Also note that the spacing between characters may be somewhat "off," this sould not occur if you write in real Klingon since all kerning pairs (which determine the distance between glyphs) that can occur in Klingon has been accordingly adjusted. If you for some reason write several vowels or consonants in a row (something that does not occur naturaly in Klingon) you may experiance this, however. This typeface is actually a modification of Klingon Language Institute's "KLIpIqaDmey." The original font by Ph.D. Lawrence M. Schoen included both the Mandel set of characters and the KLI endorsed {pIqaD} set. (Hence the plural form of the name.) I removed this since it is not suitable for the {tlhIngan Hol}, and the placement of the letters in the shifted position (A-Z rather than a-z) were not suited for my purposes. The placement of the numbers on the *shifted* number keys ("!@#$%^&*()") became *really* annoying when using a Swedish keyboard layout where these characters are somewhat rearranged. Zrajm C Akfohg dark@bahnhof.se The Klingon Academy www.come.to/ka Uppsala, Sweden