<br><br>On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jonathan Kew wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wonder whether it really makes sense to allow multiple matras in -all- positions. I believe I've seen Devanagari examples similar to Cibu's Malayalam comic, where a right-matra is repeated to suggest a loooooong sound. But left-reordering matras? Split matras? Above- or below-matras? The idea of repeating these indefinitely when writing seems much less plausible.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please see this image listing various cases of vowel sign repeating: <a href="http://thottingal.in/images/repeated-vowels-ml.png">http://thottingal.in/images/repeated-vowels-ml.png</a></div>
<div>Split matras expand on both sides as illustrated.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be a related case- After writing numbers, just like we write "16th" in English, in Malayalam, it is written as 16ാം , number followed by ാ, ം. Currently this cannot be written without dotted circle, but ideally this should render without dotted circle.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Santhosh</div>