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From: "Daniel Yaqob" <dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu>
To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu, fisseha@gerbil.cig.mot.com,
        ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu
Subject: Damning the Torpedos
Status: R


selam all :-

  The August 1993 CSES draft proposal is now at a URL near you,
Netscape formatted of course.  I OCR scanned it in this evening
and added a little html markup around the body.  It looks ok
but not exactly like the original (fewer pages since we have
scrolling capabilities).  So, the text is always at hand now,
should you wish to refer to it while make edits to your section.

  Naturally we can keep our revised version in html form as we
develop it.


-Yonas, ignore last message, the file you sent was ok, and the 
gif of your revised Desta table with our [punct][numbers][fidel]
sequences is on the top level page.  I reshuffled a few characters
at the start to insert the Ethiopic `?' and the gemination characer
that we had discussed earlier.  I add those characters by editing
pixels.

Looking at the desta-based table I am wondering now about 2 
permutations.  What we have now is:

    ke  ku  ki  ka  kE  k  ko  -
    kWe kWu kWi kWa KWE

where `-' is a blank cell.  But should it be left blank?  Or
should we keep the series contiguous like:

    ke  ku  ki  ka  kE  k  ko  kWe
    kWu kWi kWa KWE

Or (I may be thinking algorithmically) is there any benefit
in keeping the address contiguous and following with the form
of the chars having 8 forms:

    ke  ku  ki  ka  kE  k  ko  kWa
    kWe kWu kWi KWE

Which also departs more from tradition.  Oh, I just noticed that
(e3) was left out.  I'll try to remake the gif tomorrow maybe.


-yTna, Was there a reason the Ethiopic quotation marks were omitted
in the '93 table?


-yonas again, I added one of our exchanges to the mail.html page since
it touched on these topics.  I thought it would be best to make sure
the thoughts were preserved.


...must run,

      -dan'El