2013/2/28 Jonathan Kew <[email protected]> > 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<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?
For example, in comics, explosion sounds are sometimes represented this way: ഠോോോ As I get a scan I will share it .. > > > > > > 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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