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keeping with the same consideration, printing of raised numbers which designate notes or footnotes has been made easy. Having to use the superscript command in the style menu for such numbers is not only time-consuming; it also disturbs the uniformity of spacing between the
lines, unless a change of font size is also made, numbers of a smaller size
are chosen, and the slower speed of printing which results from a frequent
change of fonts and style is accepted. To avoid these problems, UBC Indic
has raised numbers (of a smaller size) in the third keyboard in places corresponding to those of unraised numbers in the first keyboard.
2.9 Theoretically, four types of start-up disks that are identical to each other in all details except the numbers in the Nāgari font file are possible in
UBC Indic: (a) Nāgari numbers in the first keyboard and raised Nāgari
numbers in the third keyboard, (b) Nāgari numbers in the first keyboard and raised Arabic numbers in the third keyboard, (c) Arabic numbers in the first keyboard and raised Arabic numbers in the third keyboard, and (d) Arabic
numbers in the first keyboard and raised Nāgari numbers in the third
keyboard. Of these, the last is not needed, since there is no practice of
using only the Nāgari numbers to indicate notes or footnotes. Disk (c) will be useful to those who prefer the use of international or Arabic numbers
throughout. The usefulness of disk (b) will consist mainly in being able to
make the numbers of notes appear distinctive in an otherwise Nāgari text.
2.10 It should be clear from the considerations noted above that disks (a) and (c) are more useful and hence should be prepared first. This is what has been done under the names "UBC Indic" and "UBC Indic International."
