Re: Indic syllabic editing (was RE: Unicode Tibetan (Was: syllabl e

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> This is not quite true. You're forgetting the mouse! Uniscribe
> will convert pixel positions to character positions (see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/intl/uniscrib_4ka8.asp ),
> and if this documentation is correct, it may, seemingly at its own
> discretion, refuse to return a character position within
> a 'cluster', e.g. an 'akshara'. Semites seem more privileged than
> Indians - the former are allowed to click on vowel points in their
> native scripts.

That could be because the Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac vowel points are
not considered part of the letter, but the vowel marks in an abugida
are.

"Semites"???? Then why don't you say "Indics"?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...