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taml ta newsprint justification #76

Open r12a opened 4 years ago

r12a commented 4 years ago

Scan 6

tag: justification Wide gaps where words are long. Inter-character stretching for single words. tag: justification Indented paragraph start. source: Tamil Murasu, 17.3.1995, p10

r12a commented 4 years ago

The second stretched word in the left column is பெரும்பான்மை (majority).

Note that the vowel signs have equal spaces between them and the base characters as between all other characters, ie. the stretching is done on a character by character basis, rather than grapheme clusters.

A little lower down, the full stop participates in the stretching, with the same gap as for the letters.

The inter-character stretching is only applied when only a single word fits on a line.

No hyphenation is applied.

r12a commented 4 years ago

In other locations it was clear that vowel-signs that are not already slightly separated from their base are not letter-spaced. For example the i in கிராமப்புறங்கலில். Ligated forms are also not separated.