Re: [Indlinux-hindi] Wrong ligature for "bda" ब्द

[Karunakar G. <kar...@in...>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 8:16 PM ashish agarwal <ash...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hello, as a native Hindi speaker, I wanted to point out that the ligature
> for ब्द PIC1 isn't correct in the gargi font. It is too similar to द्व
> (dva). While similarity alone doesn't mean that it is incorrect, in this
> case, I should point out that I have never come across the ligature that
> this font provides in real life
>
>
> bda (wrong in the font):
>

it is dba and not bda   द ् ब  द्ब

> [image: image.png]
>
> Yes, it was just added in font as a ligature, but perhaps no valid usage.
It could be improved a bit to remove closeness to dva

This is different that   b+d  like in श ब ् द  - शब्द


> dva (correct in your font, ignore the extra paren in the screenshot):
> [image: image.png]
>
> dva is fine, sure it would be confusing with dba at low font size.


>
> bda (correct but not in the font):
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> This is half form of ba and already handled, when writing words like शब्द

But thanks for your feedback.
Good to see users of the font.

Karunakar