TBD template

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http://localhost/scripts/XXXX/block

Set up font & sample pages

• Download fonts as needed
• Add system fonts to /shared/fontdb/db.js
• Make webfont(s) and add to /shared/webfonts/
• Find a phrase to be used for sample
• Use /scripts/fontlist/getImage to generate images for all fonts, and add to /scripts/fontlist/img/XXXX/
• Add language entry to /shared/phrasedb/db and /shared/phrasedb/samplescripts
• Add links to /scripts/fontlist/index & /scripts/samples/index

Create spreadsheet

• Take a copy of the template
• Use UniView to generate lists of characters and add them
• Create a list of characters with ipa & transcription column data. hint: vowel-signs before independent vowels helps for input later
• Add names & status
• Add key column data (conform to most common transcription) & panel column (non-ASCII characters in cols to left). hint: get the order right for presentation in the panel
• Add combinations (translit col should be literal)
• Add equivs for
  • any char that decomposes in NFD (including sequences that include decompositions)
  • any char that could be represented by a sequence
• Add to class col: - d c n f o x s (see Notes:instructions/Google Spreadsheet Guidelines)
• Add unicode names using _tools/_list_codes_and_names
• Order items to facilitate best order for display of items on keypress
• Create a copy of the spreadsheet in /shared/scriptdb/XXXX.js

Vocab

• Add terms to XX-vocab.js
• increment vocab list from wiktionary IPA
  • language page
• Use _tools/swadesh_to_vocab to create a Swadesh start list
  • links: Swadesh lists; Dravidian list; Austroasiatic list
  • Use app-findword
  • Try Googe Translate

Create initial character notes

• Use _tools/generate_details_page_stubs to generate initial content for the XX-details file
• Use _tools/generate_block_page_stubs to generate content for the block.html file
• Add a calling block to bottom of file

Create initial character app

• Use a template
• Edit defaults.js
• Arrange characters in phonetic order
  • Optional approach:
  • Use UniView to make a list of characters for the picker
  • Use _tools/_make-characters-for-input to generate spans
  • Add result to #temp div
  • Move #temp markup to appropriate positions
• Make shape list
  • Use the picker to create a list of similar glyphs on each line, separated by spaces
  • Copy the simplest shape to the start of the list
  • Copy chars on each line after /
  • Create the code using _tools/_make-shape-list
  • Copy to main source inside
• Make the hint list
  • Take the list created for the shape list, except for …
  • Create the code using _tools/hint-maker
  • Copy to localcode.js as the _h array

Summary description

• Set web fonts, sizes, and langtags in thisLanguage.css and rename
• Make intro links work for offline use
• Add a sample
• Create phonological charts
• Add alphabet section
• Work through details file, adding information to each character
• Using the information gathered in the details:
  • Create initial vowel and consonant map sections
  • Update the phonology section
  • Update the spreadsheet
• Check and update the translit, transc, class & status cols of the spreadsheet
• Create yellow panels for vowel and consonant sections
• Use main source(s) to describe character info & punctuation (capture in notes page at same time)
• Create the character index using the script at the bottom of the page
• Fill in the Character Lists and Character Properties tables
• Write the history section
• Add the language to the Character Use app
  • If a new script, add to regionList and getScriptName
• Write the summary section
• Remove the (draft) from the title
• Remove the section Languages Using the XXX Script

Publish

• Add lang tag to items in featurelist/table.js
• Add links to:
  • scripts/index
  • pickers/pickerlistdb.js
  • In linkdata/linkdb.js
    • Add to scriptNotes
    • Add to scriptNotesByRegion (if new script)
    • And to charNotesList (if new script)

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Spreadsheet layout: