Re: [Freebangfont-devel] RFC: design of bengali opentype font

[Kaushik Ghose]

Hi,
If these cases raise the size of the font a lot, perhaps use the half
forms for stuff not found in grammar books. (Do I understand this right,
half forms will be used by the font when no actual glyph is found to
"compose" the cahracter..)

Also is the explicit representation of jawphola necessary - can you fit a
rule that will add on the jawphola symbol barring the exception of
ontestojaw-y-reph ?

-kg

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> My sanskrita upakramanika from class VI (which is the only handy source of
> natta-bidhi and shatta-bidhi I have right now) says that in a conjunct of the
> form
>
> na + <anything from Ta-barga>
>
> the na must be murdhanya na (Na in our notation). so khondo would actually be
> khoNDo. The problem of course is for english words written in Bengali (e.g.,
> Bond as in James Bond), for which we can't enforce spelling conventions. I'm
> not sure what to do for such cases.
>
> Of course, there's always the fallback of using half-na + Da even if there's
> no separate glyph for this.
>
> > ga + ra + dirghou seems ok, any reason there's a q mark ?
>
> Only that I couldn't think of a word which actually uses that. Should we also
> have
>
> pa + ra + dirghou
> tha + ra + dirghou
> dha + ra + dirghou
>
> etc ?
>
>
>
>
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