Gallifreyan Scribe
This is home site of the Gallifreyan Scribe - a transcriber application for generating text in
circular gallifreyan by Loren Sherman. It can generate words
and sentences from given inputs and export results as a .png, .jpg or .svg file.
WARNING!
the Gallifreyan Scribe was developed with PCs and laptops in mind, therefore it is very likely that it won’t work on mobile devices (or will work in unintended way).
Creating gallifreyan writings
The Gallifreyan Scribe has many options controlling how the produced result looks. You can choose to generate whole sentence or standalone word. Then write text into text field and pick your options:
- Enable # ligatures - when selected generator will combine any ocurrence of bigraphs defined in circular gallifreyan with their combined version.
- Enable vowel ligatures - when selected vowels will be attached to preceeding consonants.
- Double identical vowels - when enabled consecutive ocurrences of the same vowel will be combined into doubled letter according to rules in guide to circular gallifreyan.
- Merge vowels with same stem - will merge vowels of the same type together.
- Double identical consonants - when enabled consecutive ocurrences of the same consonat will be combined into doubled letter according to rules in guide to circular gallifreyan.
- Merge consonats with same stem - will merge consonants of the same type together.
After generating your writing you can choose to connect any two given line endpoints (which are automatically added to letters, that should have lines) with a line. To do this simply use the “Connect” button in letter inspector and pick other endpoint. Keep in mind, that this operation is currently irreversible! Also important to note is, that added lines in their arc variant will be parts of circles that extend counter-clockwise from first selected endpoint.
Exporting your work
When you are happy with your result you can use File > Export Image to export it to image. When
exporting you may choose the image format (.png or .jpg). Then it is necessary to provide
name for your image and its size in pixels. Choose this size carefully, because your writings’ sizes are also
specified in pixels (contrary to the previous version).
Supported letters
The Gallifreyan Scribe currently supports only these characters:
- space:
- base latin characters:
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z - specified in circular gallifreyan bigraphs for
CH, GH, NG, PH, QU, SH, TH, WH - apostrophe
'and hyphen-as parts of words in sentences only - vowels and some consonants with accent acute marks:
á, é, í, ó, ú, ć, ĺ, ń, ѓ, ś, ź - vowels with grave accent marks:
à, è, ì, ò, ù - vowels with umlaut:
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü
Questions, bugs and contact
In case of any questions, bugs or feature requests please contact me!