Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

On the subject of syllabic consonants, is there supposed to be any difference
between, say, [r] and [r=] beyond that the later acts as a syllable nucleus?

This connects to that thread on Georgian, because it seems to me consonants
like "r" pretty much automatically becomes syllabic when sandwiched between
two "stronger" (less sonorant) consonants. But this is obviously not the case
if 'vprtskvni' is truly monosyllabic.

                                                             Andreas