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Tibetan Layout Requirements document
https://www.w3.org/International/tlreq/
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missing final tshegs #14

Open nbuwe opened 6 months ago

nbuwe commented 6 months ago

Tibetan words in the body of the document seem to miss some final tshegs. E.g. https://www.w3.org/International/tlreq/#language_overview

... two different styles: དབུ་ཅན dbu can with a head, ...

there's no tsheg at the end of དབུ་ཅན་.

Later in the document the final tshegs are present, e.g. https://www.w3.org/International/tlreq/#pechas

... 2 sizes of text: ཡིག་ཆེན་ larger, ...

r12a commented 6 months ago

There may be a need to iron out things so that they are consistent, but i was following the pattern that you find , for example, in Wiktionary where the tsheg is used as a separator, rather than as a necessary part of the syllable.

Note for example also how the tsheg is dropped before a shad.

Do you still think that the tsheg should be added after every syllable?

nbuwe commented 6 months ago

Most dictionaries I have, including tshig mdzod chen mo, seems to use shad after a headword. Roerich and Parfionovich don't use either tsheg or shad. Dzongkha dictionaries from the DDC website seem to use tsheg. I've also seen a variation where there is no tsheg except after nga (i.e. there's a sort of invisible shad that is implied, but not actually present). But headwords in a dictionary are a bit special.

When Tibetan word is used inline in a surrounding Latin/Cyrillic text I think a tsheg after it helps readability.

A quick random sampling of Tibetan Verb Lexicon (in article bodies), Translating Buddhism from Tibetan and Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan all seem to use the final tsheg for inline Tibetan consistently.