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