From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jan 07 2010 - 23:36:35 CST
On 2010-01-07 11:08, Christoph Päper wrote:
> Shouldn’t that work more like this?
>
> k
> k i
> k i m – not Kim already
> Kim ch – as there is no syllabogram Kimch nor Mch
> Kim ch i
> Kim ch i k – not Chik
> Kim Chi k a – could still be something longer than Ka
> Kim Chi Ka
>
> That is, show separate constituents (jamos) until the syllabogram is
> definitely complete (but probably also indicate which jamos are still
> being considered to form a syllabogram together). Something similar is
> true for shaping scripts like (traditional) arabic where you wouldn’t
> want the last entered letter to bear a final form until you hit a
> non-letter key.
Perhaps it *should*, but it didn't. The point that she made to me is
that there is no need to "complete" the syllable, since syllable
completion is implicit in the orthography.
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