Re: Printing and Displaying Dependent Vowels

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 07:52:32 EST

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    On 26/03/2004 03:04, Michael Everson wrote:

    > At 02:39 -0800 2004-03-26, Peter Kirk wrote:
    >
    >> There are two standards-conforming way of doing these. One is to
    >> precede the dependent vowel with a space character; the other is to
    >> precede it with a non-breaking space. The latter method is
    >> preferable, especially if the standalone dependent vowel is likely to
    >> occur as part of a word rather than in isolation, to avoid unwanted
    >> line breaks.
    >
    >
    > Of course, one could always display it with a dotted circle as well.

    Except that is precisely what Srivas (Avarangal) asked NOT do do.

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