Omenad compatibility

Swarlipi's input is the character mapping of the Omenad Bhatkhande fonts, OmeBhatkhande Punjabi, Hindi, Bangla and English. Every ASCII character means what it meant in those fonts, so notation typed for them renders in Swarlipi unchanged. There is nothing to convert and nothing to re-key, and those four faces map onto Swarlipi's gurmukhi, devanagari, bengali and latin. gujarati has no Omenad counterpart — the same keymap produces it.

What changes is the output. A font substitutes glyphs for the characters you typed, so the text underneath stays sRgM. Swarlipi produces the real letters in the real script, with the marks drawn around them.

sRgM {p}d nu-

ਸਰੇਗਮ ^ਪਧ ਨੀ–Gurmukhi

सरेगम ^पध नी–Devanagari

সরেগম ^পধ নী–Bengali

સરેગમ ^પધ ની–Gujarati

SRGM ^PD N–Latin

The character-by-character mapping lives on Symbols, rendered from swarlipi/reference — the same data the notation app's in-editor guide uses.

What is different by design

• Proportional text. The fonts were monospaced glyph by glyph; Swarlipi lets the browser space real letters, so a crowded beat like sssr sets evenly without kerning tricks.
• Marks that scale. Arcs stretch to their group, dots and bars are drawn in em, and everything follows the font size.
• Glides follow the notes. A meend's geometry comes from the notes it joins, never from where the marker was typed: qs and sq are the same picture.
• Not a font. Nothing to install, and nothing to embed in a PDF. The plain-text export uses Unicode combining marks instead.

Acknowledgement

Swarlipi is inspired by the Omenad Bhatkhande fonts. It keeps their character mapping, so notation typed for those fonts renders unchanged, and its chhand arc and meend hook shapes are traced from the OmeBhatkhande typefaces, which are released under the SIL Open Font License. Everything else, the letters, the marks and the layout, is Unicode text and CSS.