A smart component trick for adjusting spacing in Devanagari conjuncts while keeping automatic alignment intact in Glyphs
https://muthunedumaran.com/2025/12/30/a-spacer-trick-for-conjunct-spacing-in-glyphs/
Muthu Nedumaran
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Typeface designer, font and software engineer. Author of MN and Sangam MN fonts, Hibizcus font tools, Murasu Anjal, Sellinam, MobileJawi and Sangam Keyboards
Saw this after my walk in the park today. What could have caused the கால் (vowel sign aa) in வெங்காயம் to drop down from the baseline 🤔
தொ - This is composed with த (U+0BA4) + ொ (U+0BCC). The two part vowel sign decomposes as ெ (U+0BC6) and ா (U+0BBE). CoreText accepts only this order but Harfbuzz accepts the vowel signs in the reverse order too. Which one is doing it right?
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The dot above the Tamil letter ப is, ‘pulli’, a non-spacing mark, positioned with GPOS. When the character spacing in the text is reduced, InDesign handles it really well. Maintains consistent spacing between letters, ignoring the zero width mark - but not Pages, TextEdit or Word. I checked Word for Mac. I believe Word for Windows will be the same. Is this just a bug or simply unsupported?