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New email-based signin process
Patantara had thus far used Mozilla Persona for signing in users for editing documents. Since Mozilla retired the Persona service this month, a new email-based signin mechanism is now in place. Our hope is that this will be easier to use for our less technically inclined users.
Read More ...Sthayi (octave) markers
The Patantara notation viewer used to use combining unicode characters to display sthayi - i.e. octave - markers. These appear as either single dot above or below a svara letter or a double dot above or below. The single dot indicates one octave shift and the double dot indicates two octave shift. These markers displayed correctly only in Safari on MacOSX and failed on the more commonly used Chrome browser due to a series of bugs in Chrome. We’ve now “fixed” these by rendering the dots separately and not relying on the browser’s ability to handle unicode combining characters correctly.
Read More ...Mixed transliteration
Diacritics editor bug fixed
Amba Kamakshi
What's happening?
Creating/editing notations on patantara is now open to all
Until today, creating/editing/publishing notations was limited to a few invited people. From today on, anyone who wants to create notation that can be viewed automatically in five south Indian language scripts, or as staff notation is welcome to use Patantara to do it. You don’t even have to create an account on patantara.com. Just sign in using Mozilla Persona using one of your existing accounts such as Gmail or Yahoo! mail.
Read More ...Sarasuda - Saveri varnam notation
Added notation of Saveri varnam to patantara. Mrs. Sudha Harikrishnan kindly provided the descriptive notation for this beautiful varnam.
A note on “prescriptive” and “descriptive” notation -
Read More ...No more intimidating URLs
Audio track attachments
What’s a music site without actual sound on it, right? Now, folks with editing rights on Patantara can add audio attachments to the documents they create. I describe how to do that in this post using the canonical Ganarajena Raksitoham example.
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