RE: [Indic-computing-devel] [review-request] Indic computing handbook: devanagari

[Alok K. <alo...@so...>]

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> > http://www.geocities.com/alkuma/devanagari/en/index.html
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> > Upto 3 consonants we have; 20+37x20+37x37x20+37x37x37x20
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> Not all of these consonant combinations would be in use
> though ...

That's correct. Will try to give example words for the ones that are
actually used, for as many conjuncts as possible.

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> > Devanagari uses decimal digits viz 0 thru 9
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> I thought the "hindi" numerals had a different shape from
> the "Roman" 0..9 ?

Right, that's true. I was planning to add gif images for them. At the same
time, for official(ie government) use, the roman numerals are used.

I added a bunch of images for the consonants yesterday, they are hand drawn
and look ugly.
Is there any other option? Font glyphs may be copy protected. So if anybody
is interested in granting permission to use their font glyphs for the
handbook, please let us know.
Even then, a font would normally have one form of a character's glyph, so we
might need to use glyphs from many fonts to replace the hand drawn ones.
Gradually the hand drawn graphemes should get replaced by machine generated
ones.

Thanks for the comments, more awaited.

Regards
Alok