You can find quite a few "non-standard" stacks (those used in Tibetan abbreviations) in the book བསྡུ་ཡིག་གསེར་གྱི་ཨ་ལོང། which is freely available in PDF format from <http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/publications/PDF-publications/Duyig.pdf>
- Chris On 17/08/2011, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/16/2011 3:32 PM, Andrew West wrote: >> On 16 August 2011 18:19, Asmus Freytag<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> "These stacks are highly unusual and are considered beyond the scope >>>> of plain text rendering. They may be handled by higher-level >>>> mechanisms". >>> The question is: have any such "mechanisms" been defined and deployed by >>> anyone? >> In my opinion, until someone produces a scan of a Tibetan text with >> multiple consonant-vowel sequences, and asks how they can represent it >> in plain Unicode text there is no question to be answered. > > Thank you Andrew - that clarifies the issue for the non-specialist. > > A./ > >> >> Chris Fynn asked about certain non-standard stacks he was trying to >> implement in the Tibetan Machine Uni font in an email to the Tibex >> list on 2006-12-09, but these didn't involve multiple consonant-vowel >> sequences (one stack sequence was<0F43 0FB1 0FB1 0FB2 0FB2 0F74 0F74 >> 0F71> which would be reordered to<0F42 0FB7 0FB1 0FB1 0FB2 0FB2 0F71 >> 0F74 0F74> by normalization which would display differently). >> >> Other non-standard stacks that I have seen involve horizontal >> progression within the vertical stack (e.g. yang written horizontally >> in a vertical stack). >> >> More recently, the user community needed help digitizing Tibetan texts >> that used the superfixed letters U+0F88 and U+0F89 within non-standard >> stacks, resulting in a proposal to encode additional letters >> (http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3568.pdf). >> >> None of these non-standard stack use cases involved multiple >> consonant-vowel sequences, and I'm not sure whether I have ever seen >> an example of such a sequence. I have learnt that there is little >> point discussing a solution for a hypothetical problem, because when >> the real problems arise they likely to be something different. >> >> Andrew >> > > >
