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

[Kevin Siji]

അ റ റ കു റ റ പണികൾ എന്നൊരു ഫലിതവും ഒരുപാടു കാലമായി നിലവിലുണ്ടു്.


On 19 March 2014 12:11, സ്നാപക് യോഹൻ <snapakyohan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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