[HarfBuzz] Corner case wrt to repeating Malayalam vowel sign OO

[Cibu Johny (സിബു)]

2013/2/28 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>

> On 28/2/13 09:59, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:>
> >
> > On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please see this image listing various cases of vowel sign repeating:
> > http://thottingal.in/images/**repeated-vowels-ml.png<http://thottingal.in/images/repeated-vowels-ml.png>
> > Split matras expand on both sides as illustrated.
>
> Do you have illustrations/examples demonstrating a real-world requirement
> for repeated split matras, rather than just a constructed test-case?


For example, in comics, explosion sounds are sometimes represented this way:
ഠോോോ

As I get a scan I will share it ..

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> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> We're aware of this example, and intend to fix it; it's a separate issue
> from whether some or all matras may be repeated.
>
> JK
>
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