Thank you for your feedback. Could you please add in your comments on the wiki discussion page too (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard</a>)?<br><br>
thanks again,<br>Arjun<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sayamindu Dasgupta</b> <<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 01:20 +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:<br>> Sayamindu/Joshua,<br>><br>> We appreciate your suggestions/feedback.<br>><br>> We are in the process of taking a decision to figure out the best-fit
<br>> solution to position characters on the keycaps.<br>><br>> There are several classes of choices to make:<br>><br>> (A) Keep everything aligned horizontally and vertically or introduce<br>> an offset that will allow for larger glyphs.
<br>><br>> (B) Always vertically align to the horizontal stroke of the character,<br>> leaving space above the stroke for those characters that have marks<br>> above or make a slight modification by sliding the character up
<br>> vertically when there is no mark, again making it possible to use<br>> larger<br>> glyphs.<br>><br>><br><br>I had a look at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard
</a> and<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi1.png">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi1.png</a> (vertical alignment, no<br>horizontal alignment) seemed to be the most visually appealing to me.<br><br>However, this kind of glyph alignment may be difficult to implement in
<br>certain cases (eg: what if character aa, U0906 needs to be combined with<br>vowel sign ii, U0940 ?)<br><br>Between horizontal and vertical alignment (or no alignment all), I would<br>suggest that more importance be given to vertical alignment, since our
<br>writing system makes to mandatory to align all our glyphs in line with<br>the top horizontal bar present in most of the characters.<br><br>In such a situation, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi3.png">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi3.png
</a> is should<br>be avoided <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi2.png">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi2.png</a> seems to be the<br>safest option.<br><br><br>Warm regards,<br>Sayamindu<br><br><br>--<br>Sayamindu Dasgupta
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