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before the consonant in traditional writing, no non-initial vowel sign needs
to be typed before the consonant form making a syllable with it.
5.4 The consonant-vowel and consonant-consonant combinations which have assumed peculiar conventional forms and are widely employed (despite the use of a simpler, more consistent, revised Nāgari in many Indian periodicals) are retained on individual keys; thus , , , , , , 7, 77, etc. are preserved. So too is preserved as a very common stylization. The space made available by the elimination of non-essential combinations has been used to include as many other marks as are useful in presenting a text (e. g., ( ), (),v,',+ → ) and covering the full range of current Nāgari (e. g., o, , ) Printing of such combinations as f31, 3ft, 37, 31, 31, 31, 31, and 3 which 'reformed' Nāgari employs for 3, etc. is also possible with UBC Nāgari.
5.5 Fonts have been so designed as to make clear the difference between those letters which can possibly be confused; thus, y 4, 4 a , a @, etc.
5.6 If space is needed for additional signs, it could be had by dropping
, X, 37, 7 and (replaceable, respectively, by 314, ca, aut, ral, and 3).
