[smc-discuss] Best practice for supporting alternative rendering of glyphs: ന്റ & റ്റ

[സ്നാപക് യോഹൻ]

Attaching the October 1972 Ambily Ammavan (page 35). Many old books were
using ന്റ & റ്റ in non-stacked forms. So when did the stacked form of these
glyphs came into popular usage?


2014-03-18 19:04 GMT+05:30 Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
> <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree.  My use case is for re-printing old books printed in this
> format.
> >
> >
> > If the use case is visually present all stacked nta as nonstacked nta,
> and
> > that output is not for further machine consumption, why not replace all
> ന്റ
> > with ന്‍റ,  similarly all റ്റ with ററ and print? Or even have a local
> font
> > with this modification- ന്റ glyph modified with ന്‍റ and റ്റ with ററ? If
> > this is enough, I can create that custom font for this purpose. Contact
> > offline if required.
>
> I will go for local font with these modifications.  Thanks for the offer :)
>
> Regards,
> Baiju M
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