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mozhi_malayalam documentation updates needed

Open LornaSIL opened this issue 4 years ago • 12 comments

When mozhi_malayalam had a major rewrite the rule for accessing ऽ anusvara (U+093D) was removed. We need the keyboard updated to access anusvara. In v 1.0 it was // and in v 2.0 it was possibly a#

See community request: https://community.software.sil.org/t/avagraha-symbol-prashlesha-symbol-combination-not-working-in-mozhi-malayalam/5284

LornaSIL avatar Sep 01 '21 14:09 LornaSIL

Please note that the Malayalam symbol Avagraha is

ഽ malayalam u+00d3d 06475 3389 0xD3D ഽ

This is different in Devanagari which is

ऽ devanagari sign avagraha 04475 2365 0x93D ऽ

Could you please make the necessary changes to the feature request? Sorry for the confusing message that I created. Although both the symbols are basically the same, the way it is represented in Malayalam and in Vedic Sanskrit scripts are totally different.

Thanks a lot for helping.

Here are the references.

  1. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+093D
  2. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0D3D

akhilsudhakaran avatar Sep 02 '21 12:09 akhilsudhakaran

Per @LornaSIL (ref),

It looks like if you type a\ it produces avagraha? Can you try that and see if it’s what is needed? Perhaps we just need to document it better.

And @akhilsudhakaran confirms:

Yes. a\ works!

So looks like just a documentation update is needed.

mcdurdin avatar Sep 06 '21 19:09 mcdurdin

A separate request on the community site for em dash and en dash: https://community.software.sil.org/t/em-dash-and-en-dash-in-mozhi-keyboard/5472

@MakaraSok notes the rules are already in the .kmn but not documented in the help

darcywong00 avatar Oct 20 '21 01:10 darcywong00

See information in #1683

DavidLRowe avatar Oct 21 '21 17:10 DavidLRowe

I acknowledge that the documentation for the Mozhi keyboard is not complete. My apologies. I'll update it when I sent the next PR. For now, here is the latest Mozhi 2.0 Keyboard Layout Unfortunately, it still doesn't reflect all the rules defined in the Mozhi Keyboard.

beniza avatar Feb 25 '22 18:02 beniza

@akhilsudhakaran It will be great if you can help me by creating a better documentation for the Mozhi Keyboard. Mozhi spec has been updated recently and I'm in the process of rewriting the code. So you are most welcome to contribute to the code/documentation. TIA

beniza avatar Feb 25 '22 18:02 beniza

Documentation has been improved in the last update. Also, a complete documentation (with examples) is made available here: https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/mozhi/mozhi2.

beniza avatar May 17 '22 01:05 beniza

The keyboard layout image is not correctly resized on the help site, hence it got cropped from the right side. Should I manually resize it? image

beniza avatar May 17 '22 01:05 beniza

@LornaSIL What width do you recommend for images?

DavidLRowe avatar May 18 '22 17:05 DavidLRowe

I've prepared a detailed documentation. I'll send a PR once I know how to solve this issue.

beniza avatar May 18 '22 18:05 beniza

@beniza I think 720 is about the best width for images that go into the help folders. The current ones in the help folder are 926 and 809. Sorry to not respond sooner.

LornaSIL avatar Sep 02 '22 14:09 LornaSIL