Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: New Blood - Forget the Establishment

[Keyur S. <key...@ya...>]

>  Will those fonts be opensource?

Yes. All of these fonts will be open source and opentype
layout tables will be made available. I will also try to
look for possibility of realeasing opentype tables of Raghu
font that we made available free for use.

>  Anyway Opentype fonts for Devanagari, Telugu, Kannada,
> Gujarati, (i
> think) malayalam also are under development. Also some
> fonts ( bengali
> ) are being taken from exisiting TeX fonts and coverted
> to T1 -> TTF
> -> Opentype. So I think by the time this effort starts
> there would be
> some simple open source opentype fonts available.

Great! But I think we really need some high quality fonts
also along with reasonable good quality fonts. I have
observed that most of the fonts available freely in the
public domain are not of very good quality. We are
concentrating more on very high quality fonts (like Raghu
for Hindi) which can display almost all theoratically
possible glyphs. All these fonts will have glyphs set
having total number of glyphs between 600-1200. And we'll
try to take care of including "maximal" set of glyphs in
all these fonts.

NCST is among those few organizations which have been
working in the language technology area since last 25
years. So much amount of information is available here in
all languages :-). Prof R.K.Joshi is working in that
direction. 

- Keyur



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