even better would be two sets of tiles that can be "superimposed," one for the vowel (or half-letter) part and one for the consonant part. Sorry thought of this too late, I was thinking too much along physical-scrabble lines before.
-p On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Shikhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal > > with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact glyphs that > > are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to have every single > > one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we use (vowel+consonant) > > is 36 * 12 + c where c > 0, for some "extra characters." > > > > To illustrate what I am saying: in a crossword puzzle that has the word > > होली, you can just use other words that utilize हो but not any of the other > > vowel conjugates of ह, ie हा हि ही हु हू हो हौ हे है हं ह: . In scrabble, > > you'd need to provide all of these as tiles that one could use. The set of > > words in crossword puzzles is limited, and therefore the set of glyphs used, > > much smaller than the number I listed above. > > > > And there is still the issue of half letters. ie. words like कुर्ता (क > > ु र् त ा) चिन्ह (ि च न् ह or च ि न् ह )? > > > > -prabhas > > > An idea would be to provide the standard set of letters and for each of > them also allow the user to select a vowel conjugate or make it a > half-letter. It seems reasonable to me. > > Shikhar >
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