Dear Paul O'Cuana

The type of mute or assumed Devnagari / Sanskrit 'a' is represented
by the Burmese with a symbol somewhat similar to the nineth symbol
of the Combining Diacritical Marks within Arial Unicode MS font.

If you must indicate such assumed 'a' after the right side of a bare
consonat, you could adopt that Burmese practice.

I have just now tried out the nineth symbol of the Combining
Diacritcal Marks from Arial Unicode MS font.

The Burmese call that type of symbol 'athat' where -th- sounds as
-th- in 'the'.

Written Burmese need many such symbols (athats) to indicate the mute
or assumed sounds.

Good luck!

Suan Lu Zaw

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "paulocuana" <paulocuana@...> wrote:

Dear Suan Lu Zaw,

Thanks for your kind response. Perhaps I am demanding too much but
I still have the problem of combining consonants. For example,
every devnagari consonant has an assumed "short a" after it. So if
I were to write the "mm" in dhamma, the right side of the first "m"
is left off to show that there is no "a" between them. The fonts I
have tried, including Arial Unicode MS, don't seem to have this
capability, i.e. having special characters for consonant clusters.

Best Wishes,
Paul O'Cuana