NOTE ON ANONYMOUS KLINGON FONT 1.1¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥PIQAD 1.1-VAD GhUNWIÕBEÕHEY GhITlhThis is a Klingon font a friend in Los Angeles sent me. When I got it, it was horribly disfigured; the spacing for 24- and 48-point was, well, impossible to rationalize, so either there had been an error in transferring files, or the person who designed the font had made some serious blunders. Anyway, I fixed the spacing so that it is regular, and it should print well. I have also added a 12-point font, and converted the font ID to NFNT 1024, 1025, 1026.The only sad thing is that I donÕt know how the font is supposed to work. In his ÒKlingon DictionaryÓ (New York and London: Pocket Books, 1985) Marc Okrand (who created Klingon for the Star Trek films) says the following:ÒThere is a native writing system for Klingon (called pIqaD) which seems to be well-suited to the various dialects. This writing system is not yet well understood and is, therefore, not used in this dictionary. Instead, a transcription system based on the English alphabet has been devised. An article is being prepared for the ÒKlingon EncyclopediaÓ which will explain the details of pIqaD.Ó (p. 11)I donÕt know how ÒcanonicalÓ this font is, though as a linguist, font designer, and Star Trek fan IÕve decided IÕm going to write to Mr Okrand and see what he thinks. But if anyone has seen this font before with docs about its orthographic system, please let me know!! As it is, two things are of note: it is missing the C and the Q; and upper and lower cases are identical. Punctuation is minimal. For ÒamateurÓ purposes I guess one can just type randomly with it; but if itÕs to be a linguistic representation of Marc OkrandÕs Klingon then it seems pretty weird. (pIch vighajbeÕ!) For those interested, the transcribed Klingon alphabet runs thus:a, b, ch, D, e, gh, H, I, j, l, m, n, ng, o, p, q, Q, r, S, t, tlh, u, v, w, y, ÕI am thinking of remapping this font so that these correspond to:a, b, c, d, e, g, h, i, j, l, m, n, f, o, p, q, k, r, s, t, z, u, v, w, y, x ,but this would involve creating two new letters. That I wonÕt do without consulting this worldÕs expert on Klingon epigraphy and orthography..... So be looking for Klingon 2.0, well, sometime.tlhIngan Hol DaSovlaHchugh, HIghItlh!Michael Everson,meverc95@irlearn,Dept of Archaeology,University College Dublin,Belfield, Dublin 4,Ireland.