Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 23:46:30 CDT

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    Peter Constable wrote:
    > Can you provide details?
    >
    > Peter Constable
    > Program Manager * Font Technologies

    I'll try to dig up some examples - I noticed this in some old texts on
    Sanskrit Grammar & Composition which were lost in Sanskrit but preserved in
    their Tibetan translations and have now been re-translated back into Sanskrit.

    - Chris

    > William J Poser wrote:
    >> I've never seen the first problematic glyph-complex, but I can
    >> say with some confidence that it is a mistake since it ends with
    >> a virama which is followed by a vowel sign, which is impossible.
    >> Something is wrong.
    >
    > Hi William
    >
    > I seen a handful of examples in old texts where both a virama and vowel
    > *do* occur on the same conjunct.
    >
    > - Chris
    >
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