Re: [WMASTERS] Re: glyph choices for font encoding-version 1.2

[Vasu Renganathan <vasur@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>]

To add one more thing in addition to Kalyan's explanation: The TeX problem
that Prof. Schiffman pointed out is also solved in one of the later
versions of transliteration (tamilize) software that we released from Penn
Language Center. This software allows us to include punctuation marks
(lower ascii) in the middle of romanized Tamil text.  The package called
tamiltex.zip is available for download from
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/tamilfont/tamiltex.zip

Vasu.


On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram wrote:

> Dear Prof. Schiffman:
> > For starters, beyond the copyright symbol etc. we need quotation 
> > marks ("inverted commas"), apostrophe, colon, semicolon, 
> > question mark, exclamation point, period (full stop), comma. 
> 
> In the 8-bit character encoding that we are currently discussing
> all of the above punctuation marks are already there in the lower
> ASCII part (slots 0-127). I did not include them in my gif picture
> since the basic ascii part 0-127 is a well-known entity.
> One point is that, the list includes only the straight single (')
> and double (") quotes and the curly equivalent ones.
> In case you have not a handy lower ASCII table to refer to,
> I reproduce the contents of this part at the end of this email.
> 
> In 7-bit fonts, one needs to make provisions for these along
> with the glyphs for tamil characters/alphabets. We do have
> already several 7-bit fonts in the field carrying the complete
> set. Mylai tamil font of mine for example, has most of these
> characters (quotes " or ' are missing) along with tamil glyphs.
> So we do have several working fonts to refer to.
> 
> Kalyan
> 
> ----
> Plain ASCII characters
> 
> Slots 0-31 are reserved for control characters
>  32   space  (control character)
>  33    !     exclamation mark  (exclam)
>  34    "     double straight quote (quoteddbl)
>  35    #     numerical sign (numbersign)
>  36    $     dollar sign (dollar)
>  37    %     percentage sign (percentage)
>  38    &     ambersand (ambersand)
>  39    '     single straight quote (quotesingle)
>  40    (     left parenthesis (parenleft)
>  41    )     right parenthesis (parenright)
>  42    *     multiplication sign (asterisk)
>  43    +     plus/addition sign (plus)
>  44    ,     comma (comma)
>  45    -     minus/hyphenate sign (hyphen)
>  46    .     full stop/period (period)
>  47    /     divide/slash (slash)
>  48    0     numeral zero  (zero)
>  49    1     numeral one  (one)
>  50    2     numeral two  (two)
>  51    3     numeral three (three)
>  52    4     numeral four (four)
>  53    5     numeral five (five)
>  54    6     numeral six (six)
>  55    7     numeral seven (seven)
>  56    8     numeral eight (eight)
>  57    9     numeral nine (nine)
>  58    :     colon   (colon)
>  59    ;     semi-colon (semicolon)
>  60    <     less than sign (less)
>  61    =     equal to sign (equal)
>  62    >     greater than sign (greater)
>  63    ?     question mark (question)
>  64    @     at sign (at)
>  65    A     latin capital letter A
>  66    B     latin capital letter B
>  67    C     latin capital letter C
>  68    D     latin capital letter D
>  69    E     latin capital letter E
>  70    F     latin capital letter F
>  71    G     latin capital letter G
>  72    H     latin capital letter H
>  73    I     latin capital letter I
>  74    J     latin capital letter J
>  75    K     latin capital letter K
>  76    L     latin capital letter L
>  77    M     latin capital letter M
>  78    N     latin capital letter N
>  79    O     latin capital letter O
>  80    P     latin capital letter P
>  81    Q     latin capital letter Q
>  82    R     latin capital letter R
>  83    S     latin capital letter S
>  84    T     latin capital letter T
>  85    U     latin capital letter U
>  86    V     latin capital letter V
>  87    W     latin capital letter W
>  88    X     latin capital letter X
>  89    Y     latin capital letter Y
>  90    Z     latin capital letter Z
>  91    [     left square bracket (bracketleft)
>  92    \     back slash (backslash)
>  93    ]     right square bracket (bracketright)
>  94    ^     asciicircum
>  95    _     underscore
>  96    `     grave
>  97    a     latin small letter a
>  98    b     latin small letter b
>  99    c     latin small letter c
> 100    d     latin small letter d
> 101    e     latin small letter e
> 102    f     latin small letter f
> 103    g     latin small letter g
> 104    h     latin small letter h
> 105    i     latin small letter i
> 106    j     latin small letter j
> 107    k     latin small letter k
> 108    l     latin small letter l
> 109    m     latin small letter m
> 110    n     latin small letter n
> 111    o     latin small letter o
> 112    p     latin small letter p
> 113    q     latin small letter q
> 114    r     latin small letter r
> 115    s     latin small letter s
> 116    t     latin small letter t
> 117    u     latin small letter u
> 118    v     latin small letter v
> 119    w     latin small letter w
> 120    x     latin small letter x
> 121    y     latin small letter y
> 122    z     latin small letter z
> 123    {     left parenthesis (braceleft)
> 124    |     vertical bar (bar)
> 125    }     right parenthesis (braceright) 
> 126    ~     tilde (asciitilde)
> 127    DEL   (control character)
>