Re: Devanagari variations

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 12:15:23 EST


At 10:29 -0600 2002-03-08, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>Jim Agenbroad responded (off list):
>
>> Not quite. On page 214 of 3.0 there is one RA vowel, a halant and a
>RI
> >vowel: RA(d) + RI(n) --> RI(n) +RA(sup) ( parens in lieu ofsubscript)
>
>I didn't realise that "RI" meant the vocalic R. I mistook it to mean
>something else. I find it a weakness of that section that such notations
>are not defined and prominently displayed in an easy-to-find location.

Actually, I would like to see that written R with dot below. We
should use decent transliteration in those notations; why not?

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