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bug #48918: Full form of Devanagari ṅka in non-full-form context

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Submitted on:  Sat 27 Aug 2016 12:31:20 AM UTC  
 
Category: individual character(s)Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: character substitution issueStatus: Fix posted
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: OpenRelease: development

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Fri 09 Sep 2016 10:58:51 PM UTC, comment #3:

Hi,

A fix is posted in Serif. I'll eventually copy all the tables to the other faces.

After all my (evidently persuasive) argumentation, today I don't buy it. Now I think I'll go back to the way Velthuis handles conjunct ligatues joined to other consonants.

One reason is, I always intended to make the table in the velthuis manual work exactly as depicted. And right there in the first column under OH, are several cases of a vertical ligature conjunct followed by a consonant. Ain't pretty, has a virama under all that stack, but that's the way it is. Will require more work.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Mon 05 Sep 2016 10:49:38 PM UTC, comment #2:

The story of the historical ligatures tables in FreeFont is this.

Originally I used them to support the Old Hindi conjunct ligatures listed in the velthuis font manual.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, at that time I wasn't thinking about what happens if the ligature was followed by an ultimate virama or by virama-consonant, and they sometiems don't work properly for that reason.

Later, a user insisted on the ability to individually enable old ligatures, and I tried to use the same table to allow them to produce an individual historical ligature, by locally enabling the feature -- not the original purpose. Maybe the two purposes got a little confused.

To improve the behavior of the hist table, to make it work properly for Old Hindi, I plan to reproduce the measures taken in the pres tables for Sanskrit, except with hist tables. I don't know why this wouldn't work, except the hist tables are applied at a different step in the sequence than the pres tables. Could get screwy. It will take time for sure.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Sat 03 Sep 2016 08:45:34 PM UTC, comment #1:

Two more such clusters: ⟨ङ्क्ष्प⟩ and ⟨क्त्प⟩ look identical to ⟨ङ्क्षप⟩ and ⟨क्तप⟩ in Sanskrit in FreeSerif.

Anonymous
Sat 27 Aug 2016 12:31:20 AM UTC, original submission:

In FreeSans and FreeSerif, ⟨ङ्क्प⟩ looks identical to ⟨ङ्कप⟩ when historical ligatures are enabled.

Anonymous

 

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