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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Dear Neo-Brahmi GP members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>the IP reviewed the</span><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi</span><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'> scripts in the Package and notes that all</span> substantive recommendations made by the IP seem to have been incorporated.<o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>A</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>ll of them </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>can now</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'> progress to public comment</span></b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> </span><u><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>after making the corrections</span></u><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>, shared below.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p><b><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>Devanagari Showstoppers:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>1) variant context definition is missing for the "reverse mappings", that is V+Nukta -> V</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>these need to be added, otherwise the mappings are not formally symmetric (4 instances)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>[<u>corrected XML</u> attached]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>A </span><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>variant is defined by both mapping and context. Therefore a reverse mapping without a context is not a symmetric variant of a forward mapping with context.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>2) 093A does not display in one of the tables (p38), even in the PDF. <br> This may be due to selecting a font that does not support that code point.<br><br> (GP is asked to fix the document so that 093A shows in the PDF on p38).</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Minor Editorial (Devanagari):</b><b><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>The line spacing in new section 6.1.1. is unusually wide; perhaps adjust the paragraph format to force a fixed line spacing. Also, the header for 6.1.1 does not have space below it, making it harder to recognize as a header. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Candara",sans-serif'>Reference 109 in the XML is unused; it could be applied to 093C in the XML <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Minor Editorial (Devanagari and Gujarati):<br><br></b>There are some minor spelling fixes suggested in the attached marked up copies. <br><br>Note that some of the document-internal cross-references to various sections and tables show up as modified in change-tracking even though the text appears unchanged. (These changes should be reviewed; they could be spurious).<br><br><br><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Regards,<br>Sarmad<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>