Re: Devanagari composing help needed

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Peter Constable wrote:
> Can you provide details?
>
> Peter Constable
> Program Manager * Font Technologies

I'll try to dig up some examples - I noticed this in some old texts on
Sanskrit Grammar & Composition which were lost in Sanskrit but preserved in
their Tibetan translations and have now been re-translated back into Sanskrit.

- Chris

> William J Poser wrote:
>> I've never seen the first problematic glyph-complex, but I can
>> say with some confidence that it is a mistake since it ends with
>> a virama which is followed by a vowel sign, which is impossible.
>> Something is wrong.
>
> Hi William
>
> I seen a handful of examples in old texts where both a virama and vowel
> *do* occur on the same conjunct.
>
> - Chris
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