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

[ashish a. <ash...@gm...>]

I get that in bda in your font.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 9:46 PM Karunakar Guntupalli <kar...@in...>
wrote:

>
> 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
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