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<BR>Subject: [agathiyar] Re: [tamil] Clock-wise Tamil characters (info needed)
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<BR>>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:09:14
<BR>>To: SiSrivas@...
<BR>>From: jaybee <jaybee@...>
<BR>>Subject: Re: [tamil] Clock-wise Tamil characters (info needed)
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<BR>>Dear SiSrivas,
<BR>>
<BR>>At 08:39 PM 9/26/99 EDT, you wrote:
<BR>>>
<BR>>>All Tamil characters are written in clockwise fashion. This for me is a hear 
<BR>>>say, though from very reliable persons. I looked at all the characters and it 
<BR>>>lokks as though it is correct. However the iTaddai combu could be written in 
<BR>>>both direction.
<BR>>>
<BR>> 
<BR>> Generally, it is so.
<BR>> The exceptions are pa, ta, ma, and ya.
<BR>> The following are a combination of the clockwise 
<BR>> and anti-clockwise movements - ai,nga, lzha, ma, and va.
<BR>> There is actually no rule about this.
<BR>> The most plausible reason would be the method of writing 
<BR>> with the stylus on the Edu. The palmyra Edu is held in the 
<BR>> left hand, and scribbling the letters is done by the right 
<BR>> hand on to the Edu.
<BR>> We also write from the top left and follow rightwards
<BR>> and downwards.
<BR>> It is the Edu which is moved along between the fingers of the 
<BR>> left hand. Something like the drum of the type-writer where
<BR>> the paper is moved along with the drum. But the types fall in 
<BR>> the same place.
<BR>> And not the right hand that moves along as we do now on paper, 
<BR>> which is held stationary.
<BR>> The letters are written in a rotatary movement.
<BR>> Please see if you can get a copy of the vattelzhuththu
<BR>> characters.
<BR>> That will give an idea.
<BR>>
<BR>> Regards
<BR>>
<BR>> Jayabarathi 
<BR>>
<BR>>>Does any one know of this rule and is it written in any procedural books?
<BR>>>
<BR>>>nantry
<BR>>>Sinnathurai Srivas
<BR>>>
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