even better would be two sets of tiles that can be "superimposed," one for the vowel (or half-letter) part and one for the consonant part.<br>Sorry thought of this too late, I was thinking too much along physical-scrabble lines before.<br>
<br>-p<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Shikhar <<a href="mailto:shikhar@schmizz.net">shikhar@schmizz.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact glyphs that are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to have every single one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we use (vowel+consonant)<br>
is 36 * 12 + c where c > 0, for some "extra characters."<br>
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To illustrate what I am saying: in a crossword puzzle that has the word होली, you can just use other words that utilize हो but not any of the other vowel conjugates of ह, ie हा हि ही हु हू हो हौ हे है हं ह: . In scrabble, you'd need to provide all of these as tiles that one could use. The set of words in crossword puzzles is limited, and therefore the set of glyphs used, much smaller than the number I listed above.<br>
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And there is still the issue of half letters. ie. words like कुर्ता (क ु र् त ा) चिन्ह (ि च न् ह or च ि न् ह )?<br>
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-prabhas<br>
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An idea would be to provide the standard set of letters and for each of them also allow the user to select a vowel conjugate or make it a half-letter. It seems reasonable to me.<br><font color="#888888">
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Shikhar<br>
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