Support conjuncts found in the Adi Granth

[simoncozens]

This is a long term project:

• Identify required conjuncts
• See if there's a way to represent them with use of re-usable components instead of having to draw everything.
• Draw and shape what needs to be done to support them.

[tiroj]

As far as I know, no special handling for conjuncts is required for the Adi Granth text. Only in the oldest use of Gurmukhi are a larger number of subscript letters employed, and still not a complete set of subscript consonants. The Adi Granth text uses a standardised Punjabi orthography with only four subscript letters (including the special form of of –Ya that is particular to the Sikh scriptures). Conjuncts in Punjabi are not normally marked at all, i.e. reading is based on linguistic knowledge of the reader, rather than explicitly marked in the text. Even visible Virama is only used in Gurmukhi when transcribing Sanskrit.

[irvanjitsingh]

Bumping this issue. More and more developers are moving towards unicode to store and render verses for various Sikh scriptures, and with that, the verses are commonly being shared on various platforms, but not all can render properly.

Here's an example verse from a commonly quoted section of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (SGGS, formerly Aad Granth):
ਸਿਰ ਮਸ੍ਤਕ ਰਖੵਾ ਪਾਰਬ੍ਰਹਮੰ ਹਸ੍ਤ ਕਾਯਾ ਰਖੵਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ੍ਵਰਹ ॥ (source, another source)

The only mainstream open-source unicode font that I've seen that supports all required subscripts for SGGS is Mukta Mahee (the same verse rendered with Mukta Mahee).

Related: #26

[tiroj]

The only mainstream open-source unicode font that I've seen that supports all required subscripts for SGGS is Mukta Mahee.

Tiro Gurmukhi also. [GF]