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16 <h1>december adventure 2025</h1>
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18 <p><a href="https://eli.li/december-adventure">december adventure</a>
19 is a <b>low key</b> thingy by eli oat. the goal is to choose a project
20 and work on it in a relaxed pace.</p>
21 <p>in this year's decadv i want to work on a project that
22 i've been postponing for too long now. i'm fascinated
23 by scripts and writing aystems, both natural and
24 constructed. over the years i've accumulated a few
25 writing systems of my own. sadly, i haven't found the
26 time to document them, but this year i want to try to
27 change this.</p>
28 <p>in particular, i want not only to document each writing
29 system, but to make a computer font for each one.</p>
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33 <p>here will be some log entries, in reverse chronological order.</p>
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42 <h3 id="2025-12-04">2025-12-04</h3>
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44 <p>no writing systems related stuff today, alas.
45 but i've worked on improving my websiting experience.</p>
46 <p>i wanted to rebuild this website without any automation
47 (yeah, this is third time i redo this, but now i literally
48 write html by hand).
49 although, i thought, that maybe having cross-links displayed
50 at the bottom of pages is not that bad. so i added some
51 shell stuff so these lists could be generated.
52 i try not to worry too much about how well does it do.</p>
53 <p>initially, i went with straightforward O(n²) approach
54 (for each file, for each link, search each file for that link).
55 but then it occured to me that basically outgoing links,
56 which are much easier to find can be set as incoming links
57 to targeting pages.</p>
58 <p>oh, by the way, the repo is available on my git:
59 <a href="https://git.aaoth.xyz/aaothxyz-decadv">site sources</a>.</p>
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61 <h3 id="2025-12-03">2025-12-03</h3>
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63 <p>added pictures for <a href="ukarpanghooth.html">ukarpanghooth</a> script.
64 i planned to do another one, but didn't manage to find this little trinket i've cut writings on.
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67 <h3 id="2025-12-02">2025-12-02</h3>
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69 <p>today i mostly tweaked the website. decided to make it look
70 like <a href="http://acme.cat-v.org">acme</a> window in which i'm currently writing this sentence :D</p>
71 <p>css is a bit questionable, but i'll tweak it more as i go.</p>
72 <p>as a sidenote, it's a bit challenging to work on something while also having
73 to go to a $dayjob...</p>
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75 <h3 id="2025-12-01">2025-12-01</h3>
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77 <p>started working on <a href="ukarpanghooth.html">ukarpanghooth</a> description. couldn't do images today, sorry...</p>
78 <p>also came up with a rough scheme on how to make each font:</p>
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80 <li>draw each glyph and glyph variant (inkscape)</li>
81 <li>save glyphs as individual svg files</li>
82 <li>load glyphs (fontforge)</li>
83 <li>tweak position and size (fontforge)</li>
84 <li>export as ufo (fontforge)</li>
85 <li>add opentype fea</li>
86 <li>compile (fontmake/fontc)</li>
87 <li>test (browser, libreoffice, harfbuzz, pango), looping back to 1-7 as needed</li>
88 <li>verify metadata and upload</li>
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