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Shobhika is a Devanāgarī font for scholars.
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Sama Veda svara support #12

Open jamadagni opened 5 years ago

jamadagni commented 5 years ago

Namaste. This is a placeholder bug for this desideratum in Shobhika. First I provide attestations from sources:

Arcika markings:

out

Gana markings:

out

jamadagni commented 5 years ago

A difficulty with Sama Vedic svara markers is that they can occur in combination. If they occur alone, they can be placed in one centered position above the base, but in combination, one svara marker has to move slightly left and another slightly right so that they don't clash trying to occupy the same position above the base.

Based on feedback from Sama Vedic scholars, the following data is provided re combining svara markers:

The following svara markers occur first in such two-member combinations and hence should move left: combining above forms of {१ २ ३ ४ ५ ऽ अ न वि} and of the dash i.e. \u1CD2

The following occur second in such combinations and hence should move right: combining above forms of {० र क उ प}, of * i.e. \u20F0, and of ^ i.e. \u1CD0

The combination विर needs some special attention because if वि and र are totally the same height then it will seem awkward so र should be only as tall as the shirorekha of वि, but in other places, it should be as tall as the digits for better legibiility.

Apart from the above list, the following two-member combination also occurs: ११

The following three-member combinations also occur and need to be provided for:

  1. २र*
  2. २रक
  3. *११
  4. ११प
jamadagni commented 5 years ago

The following PDF contains some actual Sama Veda passages I rendered based off modified glyphs of another commonly seen font covering all kinds of Sama Vedic combinations I have encountered: sama-veda-actual-examples-A4.pdf

ijya commented 5 years ago

Sāmaveda support is the last major pending work in Shobhika. Time and resources allowing, this may be taken up in the future.