RE: List of ligatures for languages of the Indian subcontinent.

2003-03-18 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Dream on. The information needed exists in books and other > reference source in libraries, book shops, and other collections > across India -- and, for that matter, around the world. It is > "merely" a matter of collecting the relevant information and > distilling it into

Re: List of ligatures for languages of the Indian subcontinent.

2003-03-18 Thread William Overington
Thank you for your comments. I am not going to attempt to produce the list of ligatures myself. I am writing the paper to draw attention to the problem which exists in relation to the DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcasting - Multimedia Home Platform) system of interactive broadcasting and its applic

Re: List of ligatures for languages of the Indian subcontinent.

2003-03-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
William Overington asked: > > And nobody out there is volunteering to do it. > I was told that I could commission it. That statement by Michael Everson was not a *permission*, but merely a statement of fact. Anyone can commission any expert they like, under contract to produce whatever output or

Re: List of ligatures for languages of the Indian subcontinent. (from Re: per-character "stories" in a database)

2003-03-17 Thread John Hudson
A few observations, so that William will understand the scope and some of the issues of what he is proposing. 1. For some Indic scripts, including Devanagari, there is no fixed set of 'ligatures' that would be normative for every typeface, or for every language using the script. So even for a s

List of ligatures for languages of the Indian subcontinent. (from Re: per-character "stories" in a database)

2003-03-17 Thread William Overington
> And nobody out there is volunteering to do it. I would do it gladly, but I do not have any skills at Indian languages. My opinion is that the list is important for the future of digital interactive broadcasting so I am trying to get the list done so that it is ready for use in displaying distan