Suppressing Ligation of Spacing Marks

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:09:45 +0000

Should it be possible to suppress the ligation of a base character and
a visually following spacing mark in plain text?

The example I have in minf is the sequence <U+1A36 TAI THAM LETTER NA,
U+1A63 TAI THAM VOWEL SIGN AA>. It may be desirable to suppress the
ligation because both ligands have subscript consonants. However, if
I write <NA, ..., ZWNJ, SIGN AA, ...>, the Universal Shaping Engine
decides that the ZWNJ triggers a new syllable, and inserts a dotted
circle before SIGN AA. (The dotted circle after SIGN AA results from a
failure to read the proposal for the Lanna script as it was then
called.)

Richard.
Received on Tue Nov 08 2016 - 03:10:17 CST

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