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Support conjuncts found in the Adi Granth #6

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simoncozens opened this issue Jun 22, 2022 · 1 comment
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Support conjuncts found in the Adi Granth #6

simoncozens opened this issue Jun 22, 2022 · 1 comment

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@simoncozens
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This is a long term project:

  • Identify required conjuncts
  • See if there's a way to represent them with use of re-usable components instead of having to draw everything.
  • Draw and shape what needs to be done to support them.
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tiroj commented Jun 23, 2022

As far as I know, no special handling for conjuncts is required for the Adi Granth text. Only in the oldest use of Gurmukhi are a larger number of subscript letters employed, and still not a complete set of subscript consonants. The Adi Granth text uses a standardised Punjabi orthography with only four subscript letters (including the special form of of –Ya that is particular to the Sikh scriptures). Conjuncts in Punjabi are not normally marked at all, i.e. reading is based on linguistic knowledge of the reader, rather than explicitly marked in the text. Even visible Virama is only used in Gurmukhi when transcribing Sanskrit.

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