[smc-discuss] Rendering issue: ചെയ്വാൻ

Rajeesh K Nambiar rajeeshknambiar at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 15:00:04 PDT 2014


Thanks for the report, Baiju.

Fixed for both Rachana and Meera and pushed the commits. See:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc/fonts.git/commit/?id=4db28f04a590a8c2a6a0c367aee073c81fd73898
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc/fonts.git/commit/?id=e6fa3901986371db8110cb1709420c26e3200cc9

Ideally, we should find a way to use contextual lookups for these
(യ്വ, ഴ്വ, യ്ര, യ്ല etc).

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> I reported this issue here for Android:
> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67430
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> HI Santhosh,
>>>
>>> My earlier attachment didn't appear here (huge?).  Replying again.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Santhosh Thottingal
>>> <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, March 20, 2014, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Santhosh and Rajeesh,
>>>>>
>>>>> Rendering of ചെയ്വാൻ is not proper in my system.
>>>>> This word still in use, mainly in poems and old books:
>>>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=ചെയ്വാൻ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ചെയ്‌വാന്‍
>>>>
>>>> is this what you wanted?
>>>
>>> I am fine with that rendering.
>>>
>>> However, there was a stacked form similar to ഴ്വ also used in print.
>>> See this photo taken from സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം:
>>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8USmuwZlS39YVV1MUlVZU1ock0
>>>
>>> Since Meera & Rachana are traditional fonts, a stacked form would be better.
>>
>> I uploaded that image here:
>> http://imgur.com/xemgPhN
>>
>> Regards,
>> Baiju M




-- 
Cheers,
Rajeesh



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