On 04/11/2012 10:31 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Syllabic is very generic word in linguistics. It is better to stick to indic >> or modify it with suffix like + (indic+) to indicate the support. > > I'm sorry but I disagree. This is not linguistics. This is scripts, > which while related to linguistics, is not necessarily bound by the > rules of linguistics. And the whole point of the query from Behdad was > to have a more generic name than "indic". So I recommend to stick to > "syllabic". Or if you want: "abugida", which is *the* recognized term > for this kind of scripts.
In the mean time I thought since I already added a Thai and a Hangul shaper, maybe we can just point people to the following link is enough to convince them that harfbuzz-ng is more than *just* Arabic and Hindi: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/tree/src/hb-ot-shape-complex-private.hh#n67 b > And note that the other name for abugida is alphasyllabary, which > again comes back to syllabic. See also > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida > _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
