This work involved designing the first modern, practical orthography for the language.
It is usually spelt as a single word in modern orthography.
It included an essay on the oddities of modern orthography and his proposals for reform.
An improved translation using the modern orthography was completed in 2000.
This may have prevented the rise of a modern orthography based on etymology and older texts.
The modern orthography was first proposed in 1879.
The definitive modern orthography was published in 1946, just after independence from colonial rule.
In modern monotonic orthography, that is after 1982, it has been dropped.
There were other differences from the modern Slovene orthography.
It did not distinguish tone (nor does modern Slovenian orthography).
