Looking at page 17 of the manual, I'm not sure what to make of the dash (?) between the ·why and the ·et. _Is_ it a dash? Was "what-ever" the preferred spelling in Read's day (like how "type-writer" b

On page 17 in the Quickscript manual Kingsley Read offers some standard contractions for use in Senior Quickscript. Looking at with & without, it is clear that "with" is 18+26. However, "without" is 1

Hi Quikscripters I run Shavian.info and have just published a 100,000+ term lexicon of Shavian spellings, which could easily be adapted for Quikscript as well. A high-level explanation of the principl

Our first year on groups.io will end on 10/24. As planned I have downgraded the group to free to avoid the $220/yr. fee. Here are the changes this will entail: The storage allocation goes from 20 GB t

Hi all, I thought you might be interested to know that I have recently launched a new website dedicated to Quikscript. It hosts the new fonts I have created so far (more on the way!) in addition to my

https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html You’ll want to read this if you want to understand OpenType well enough to make a proper Senior Quikscript font. Most OpenType substitution doe

Hi all, I'm new to quikscript and just want to share my experience learning it. With any new script (learning languages etc.), I think it's very useful to learn to read before writing so I have priori

Here you can see, it says common words to be fully spelt. Yet the word 'always' does not have the 'ay' sound?

Ok I will just ignore the manual then, I pronounce the 'weyz'.

Does anyone know how to set up typing for Linux by any chance for Quikscript?

Assuming there's no way to get the Consortium to accept anything more than the bare minimum of letters, I'd like to say that I support the 2013 proposal (a copy's at https://www.quikscript.net/proposa

Somehow I’ve got a copy of the Jerome font. It has Quikscript letters in the ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252 block, not in the Private Use Area. I have some plans to display it on my site, but I’m disinclined

I’m sending this again. I put some time into it. Michael I do not remember offhand what the pink bits were. Something for discussion? Or Shavian items not used in Quikscript? “Shoves”? Please. There i

In order to do a clean break, we’d need to convert all fonts, documents, and tooling to use the new codepoint set and damnatio-memoriae everything that uses the current codepoint set. This involves: m

Such a statement doesn’t respond to the substantive comment made earlier. In theory. In practice, so many of the characters are identical. So it’s more like Latin, which has a whole range of letters,

I have a couple of pages in the pipe for quikscript.net <http://quikscript.net/> on the subject, but they’re not quite publication-ready at this point. I’ll start a proper new thread on the subject to

I originally archived the materials on the Yahoo! Quikscript group when it was first announced that Yahoo! groups were effectively ending. I placed them in private but accessible storage here (https:/

In the course of learning to read and write Quikscript, I took on a side-project to manually translate Androcles and the Lion. (I expect all of you know this already, but it's a play by Shaw and was t

Your loyal moderator has just moderated his first messages in the new group. Still getting up to speed, but I'm getting things in place. Sorry those two sat around so long, but I'll see new messages w

I have a handful of pre-publication standardization-advocacy web pages that use glyphs from both scripts. While I suspect the Consortium will be underwhelmed by this even if I do end up publishing the