This is a proposed list of distinct non-ligatured glyphs and potential names and values - Unicode names were chosen based on the CSUR guide for naming glyphs and the proposal for Tengwar, and the glyph names are based on the Adobe glyph naming standards. The CSUR hasn’t been updated in some time, but the UCSUR is acting as a holding area until they can be added to the CSUR - this could be considered being sent there if this is finalised. The 0xED80-0xEDBF range is currently unused at the time of writing this.
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
|-------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0xED8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 0xED9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 0xEDA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 0xEDB | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Code Point C Glyph Name Unicode Name
--------------------------------------------------------
U+ED89 denpabu ZBALERMORNA SYMBOL FOR DENPA BU
U+ED8A yhy ZBALERMORNA SYMBOL FOR YHY
U+ED8B cnimahobu ZBALERMORNA SYMBOL FOR CNIMAHO BU
U+ED80 py ZBALERMORNA LETTER PY
U+ED81 ty ZBALERMORNA LETTER TY
U+ED82 ky ZBALERMORNA LETTER KY
U+ED83 fy ZBALERMORNA LETTER FY
U+ED84 ly ZBALERMORNA LETTER LY
U+ED85 sy ZBALERMORNA LETTER SY
U+ED86 cy ZBALERMORNA LETTER CY
U+ED87 my ZBALERMORNA LETTER MY
U+ED88 xy ZBALERMORNA LETTER XY
U+ED90 by ZBALERMORNA LETTER BY
U+ED91 dy ZBALERMORNA LETTER DY
U+ED92 gy ZBALERMORNA LETTER GY
U+ED93 vy ZBALERMORNA LETTER VY
U+ED94 ry ZBALERMORNA LETTER RY
U+ED95 zy ZBALERMORNA LETTER ZY
U+ED96 jy ZBALERMORNA LETTER JY
U+ED97 ny ZBALERMORNA LETTER NY
U+EDAA iy ZBALERMORNA LETTER SEMIVOWEL IY
U+EDAB uy ZBALERMORNA LETTER SEMIVOWEL UY
U+EDA0 abu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN ABU
U+EDA1 ebu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN EBU
U+EDA2 ibu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN IBU
U+EDA3 obu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN OBU
U+EDA4 ubu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN UBU
U+EDA5 ybu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN YBU
U+EDA6 aibu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN AIBU
U+EDA7 eibu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN EIBU
U+EDA8 oibu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN OIBU
U+EDA9 aubu ZBALERMORNA VOWEL SIGN AUBU
U+EDB0 seplimeabu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL ABU
U+EDB1 seplimeebu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL EBU
U+EDB2 seplimeibu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL IBU
U+EDB3 seplimeobu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL OBU
U+EDB4 seplimeubu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL UBU
U+EDB5 seplimeybu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL YBU
U+EDB6 seplimeaibu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL AIBU
U+EDB7 seplimeeibu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL EIBU
U+EDB8 seplimeoibu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL OIBU
U+EDB9 seplimeaubu ZBALERMORNA LETTER FULL AUBU
U+ED9A slakabu ZBALERMORNA SYMBOL FOR SLAKA BU
U+ED8C patonga ZBALERMORNA COMBINING PA TONGA
U+ED8C retonga ZBALERMORNA COMBINING RE TONGA
U+ED8D citonga ZBALERMORNA COMBINING CI TONGA
U+ED8E votonga ZBALERMORNA COMBINING VO TONGA
U+ED98 bahebu ZBALERMORNA COMBINING BAHEBU
U+ED9B tcenabu ZBALERMORNA COMBINING TCENA BU
U+ED99 smajibu ZBALERMORNA SYMBOL FOR SMAJI BU
Ligatures would then take the format ty_abu, bahebu_bahebu, denpabu_yhy, etc and would not be a part of the unicode spec, just as the other ligatures have been removed. It should be noted that in the current configuration and IME implementation, none of the diphthong code points are being used, and the {cnima’o bu} is only set up to display directly for reference - the ligatures aren’t configured to combine with it - it may be worth it to consider removing the dipthongs to reduce the size of the space.
Additional glyphs would be the second and third ba’ebu, three positional smaji bu (init, medi, fina), vowel + yhy ligatures (10), and vowel.dot alternatives for self-dotting (10). With mark-base positional lookups, this is all that’s needed to completely render ZLM.
Other glyphs like the question mark, exclamation mark, brakets, parenthesises, and braces may add to the font as well, for style.
To make it easier to develop fonts, the tools/zbalermorna.ps encoding can be loaded into FontForge to see all of the characters used in Zbalermrona texts. The optional Latin punctuation is listed first. The order/arrangement here only matters if you use a 16-character-wide display in FontForge. This is really only useful after the names/code points are created - a separate process is needed for that currently.
/zbalermorna [
/space % 0x00
/exclam
/quotedbl
/numbersign
/dollar
/percent
/ampersand
/parenleft
/parenright
/colon
/semicolon
/less
/greater
/question
/bracketleft
/bracketright
/braceleft % 0x10
/braceright
/guillemotleft
/guillemotright
/py
/ty
/ky
/fy
/ly
/sy
/cy
/my
/xy
/denpabu
/yhy
/cnimahobu
/patonga % 0x20
/retonga
/citonga
/votonga
/by
/dy
/gy
/vy
/ry
/zy
/jy
/ny
/bahebu
/smajibu
/slakabu
/tcenabu
/smajibu.init
/smajibu.medi
/smajibu.fina
/denpabu.cas
/abu
/ebu
/ibu
/obu
/ubu
/ybu
/aibu
/eibu
/oibu
/aubu
/iy
/uy
/slakabu.narrow
/.notdef
/.notdef
/.notdef
/seplimeabu
/seplimeebu
/seplimeibu
/seplimeobu
/seplimeubu
/seplimeybu
/seplimeaibu
/seplimeeibu
/seplimeoibu
/seplimeaubu
/bahebu_bahebu
/bahebu_bahebu_bahebu
] def