On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:07:19 +0200 Zdenek Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2015-04-14 15:31 GMT+02:00 Manfred Lotz > <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 > > Arthur Reutenauer > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base > > > letter? > > > > > > > > > Great idea which works perfectly for what I wanted to do, i.e. to > > create an A2 poster of the Sanskrit alphabet. > > > > http://comedy.dante.de/~manfred/sanskrit_alphabet_A2.pdf > > > > Nice but vocalic R an L are in long places, they belong in between > > long U > and E. Moreover, HA is not a sibilant, it is a gutural aspirate and > should not be on the same line with sibilant. It is even more > complex, from KA to MA you have voiceless unaspirated, voiceless > aspirated, voiced unaspirated, voiced aspirated, nasal in eac group, > then the scheme changes. > It is for private use and so it is easy for me to make a comprise between looking good and being academic. I use colors to indicate groups, and ha on a single line is just ugly (IMHO). Actually ha is in a different color (than "sa, .sa and sa) to indicate it is a different beast. Then e.g. ka..pa is violet to indicate unvoiced and unaspirated. Or green is for marking nasals. Actually, it is not my original idea, I saw it somewhere else. -- Manfred -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
