Re: Letter spacing in Indic scripts

Thanks: we agree that's imperative. But the question we're asking is whether there should be spaces between the syllables (grapheme clusters) when the script is joining and, if so, whether the "spaces" can include a break in the top bar in a script such as Devanagari? Or, thinking aloud here, for scripts like Tamil, should each visible part of grapheme clusters like கொ be evenly distributed by "letter" spacing, or should the spacing inside the syllable remain the same when the text is being distributed in one-syllable chunks? Do the typographic traditions vary by script ?

Note that this is supposed to be the typographic feature called "tracking".

Addison

(Typed on my Kindle Fire HDX)


Hariraam <hariraama@gmail.com> wrote:
Rightly stated in  test-report-for-hindi.pdf if letter spacing applied in Indic Scripts it should be after a whole syllable. No space should appear between base character and Matraa or conjuct.

हरिराम
प्रगत भारत <http://hariraama.blogspot.com>


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Prashant Verma <vermaprashant1@gmail.com<mailto:vermaprashant1@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Richard,

Indic scripts do letter spacing. They are sometimes used in posters and word puzzle in newspaper/magazines,  etc. We have tested letter spacing property in some of the Indian languages on various browsers. The test results of Hindi are available at http://w3cindia.in/word_pdf/test-report-for-hindi.pdf   in horizontal spacing section. Letter spacing does well in Mozilla and at some browsers conjuncts character are broken. The expected result is also shown in the document.

regards,

Prashant Verma
W3C India