On 28/2/13 09:59, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:>
>
> On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
> I wonder whether it really makes sense to allow multiple matras in
> -all- positions. I believe I've seen Devanagari examples similar to
> Cibu's Malayalam comic, where a right-matra is repeated to suggest a
> loooooong sound. But left-reordering matras? Split matras? Above- or
> below-matras? The idea of repeating these indefinitely when writing
> seems much less plausible.
>
>
>
> Please see this image listing various cases of vowel sign repeating:
> http://thottingal.in/images/repeated-vowels-ml.png
> Split matras expand on both sides as illustrated.
Do you have illustrations/examples demonstrating a real-world
requirement for repeated split matras, rather than just a constructed
test-case?
>
> It might be a related case- After writing numbers, just like we write
> "16th" in English, in Malayalam, it is written as 16ാം , number followed
> by ാ, ം. Currently this cannot be written without dotted circle, but
> ideally this should render without dotted circle.
>
We're aware of this example, and intend to fix it; it's a separate issue
from whether some or all matras may be repeated.
JK
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