Re: Issues with DA,NA,GA default medial variants

Hi Greg,
The "separated medial form" is not my term. I don't know what it means.
This term has been appeared in Jirimutu's email.

Badral

On 19.11.2015 15:59, Greg Eck wrote:
>
> Hi Badral,
>
> Can you give an image of the “separated medial form” so that we are 
> crystal clear on which glyph we are talking about?
>
> I am not sure what this is referring to.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> >>>>>
>
> *Sent:*Thursday, November 19, 2015 10:31 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Issues with DA,NA,GA default medial variants
>
> We have decided, that we don't change our implementation (BS column) 
> of medial default form of DA, NA, GA due to following reasons.
> 1. Logic and Ambiguation
> I already mentioned the representation logic in my previous emails. 
> Now plus:
> NA is distinguished only by dot from A.
> GA is distinguished only by dot from QA.
> DA is distinguished only by horizontal tie from TA.
>
> 2. Established almost no destabilization
> As Jirimutu described there exist almost no destabilization because no 
> FVSs stored in middle of a word. 
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-mongolian/2015OctDec/0123.html
> (cutting:
>
> Actually we are not typing and storing FVS1 in the complete Mongolian Word actually,
> It is automatically been selecting correct display form in the word.
> Only when we show the separated Medial Form individually, the FVS1 is necessary.
> For this reason, maybe you are misunderstanding the encodings.
>
> )
> I didn't understand what is the separated Medial Form. If it's not 
> ISOLATED one, then we should use ZWJ or?
> In our stem database, there exist no stem in middle form of DA, NA, GA 
> with FVSx. The most words in Greg's example are initial DA which is 
> also stored in our DB with FVS1 except suffixes. (Dun and Dugnelt 
> stored in our DB also with FVS because it's an initial second form of DA.)
> I think, the misunderstanding was established by magic of OT grammar. 
> The actual problem could be just changing OT grammar rules for font 
> developers. If someone has difficulties, we are ready to help.
> Can you accept it Jirimutu?
>
> Greg: Please accept and update your NP column as we requested unless 
> you have contra arguments.
>
> cheers,
> Badral
> >>>>>
>


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