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

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

I'm pretty sure no such ligature has ever existed. I'm not aware of any
hindi word that goes `db`. `dv` has examples like `dveSa`. `bd` is rendered
incorrectly but the only valid ligature is the one I show in blue.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:15 PM ashish agarwal <ash...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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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