<div>Sayamindu/Joshua,</div>
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<div>We appreciate your suggestions/feedback. </div>
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<div>We are in the process of taking a decision to figure out the best-fit solution to position characters on the keycaps.</div>
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<div>There are several classes of choices to make: </div>
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<div>(A) Keep everything aligned horizontally and vertically or introduce an offset that will allow for larger glyphs.</div>
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<div>(B) Always vertically align to the horizontal stroke of the character, leaving space above the stroke for those characters that have marks</div>
<div> above or make a slight modification by sliding the character up vertically when there is no mark, again making it possible to use larger</div>
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<div>Choices in class B sounds intriguing. But, before we take any decision, we wish to analyze it by taking almost all possible scenarios into account.</div>
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<div>Pointers from your side on this area of concern will be highly appreciated. </div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Manu</div>
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<div>Manusheel Gupta</div>
<div>Technical Consultant/Advisor</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sayamindu Dasgupta</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com" target="_blank">sayamindu@gmail.com
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:08 -0700, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:<br>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:42:50PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
<br><br><..snipped><br><br>> I learned Inscript and prefer it because it seems more predictable than<br>> a phonetic layout. Because of the mismatch between English and<br>> Devanagari, you can't easily predict what is phonetic according to the
<br>> designer of the phonetic layout. However, most of the Indians I've met<br>> (I am American) find the phonetic scheme easier to learn.<br>><br><br>Yes - there are quite a few "quirks" one needs to get used to while
<br>working with phonetic layouts. Eg: almost all Indic scripts have at<br>least four contenders for the 'T' key, the Devanagari ones being ta,<br>tha, tta, and ttha.<br><br>> I vote for using Inscript on the keyboard. Even though the learning
<br>> curve is a bit steeper, it's a more logical layout than any phonetic<br>> layout.<br>><br><br>Agreed. In fact <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard </a>suggests<br>that Inscript is the chosen layout.<br><br>Warm regards,<br>Sayamindu<br><br><br>--<br>Sayamindu Dasgupta<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings" target="_blank">
http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings</a> <br><br></blockquote></div><br>