[Indic-computing-standards] Re: Nice to meet you

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@me...>]

Shrinath - I have taken the liberty to add you to the indic-computing lists.

Your points about InputMethod are well-taken, I see your point...  Great, I hope you will continue to be involved in the planning of
the workshop....   Let the list know if you have any other ideas...

This tutorial you mention would be very useful I think, for the workshop and otherwise, as we have talked about making otfs from
ttfs for some time on the list, and having a standard method and documentation to do so would allow us to distrbute that to all
kinds of people who would want to start building Indic-language OTF fonts from existing ttf's....  Do you need a font for an example
to do the tutorial with?  Anyone have a ttf they want otf'ed?

--Tapan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shrinath Shanbhag" <shr...@ko...>
To: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@me...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Nice to meet you


> Hello Tapan,
>
> I've been reading the Indic-Computing list.
>
> Who do I mail to - to join the list ?
> As of now, i am unable to post there.
>
> On clicking on Project Admin I get
>
> Error
> Permission: User Not Found
>
> Anyways,
>
> my comments on "Important : Forming Organization Committee" thread
>
> 1) Apurva Joshi in Microsoft is Prof. R. K. Joshi's daughter. It's a well
> known fact.
>
> 2) IMHO the session 4 titled "Keyboard Layouts" should be titled as Input
> Methods.
> Justification :
> Each different layout is essentially a different input method.
> If it were just a layout change (like going from QWERTY to DVORAK) the
> keysequences
> required to achieve at a particular word would all be the same. Which is
> clearly not the
> case in the Indic case. The WebDuniya input method is sustantially different
> from the
> InScript one which is again totally different from the typewriter input
> methods.
>
> 3) There is one input method missing from those listed under section "4".
> The Desha input method,
> which follows the pure consonant philosophy. It should be added.
>
> Please note, all of the input methods can be supported on Unicode or any
> other encoding.
>
> 4) I could contribute to the group by writing a tutorial for converting a
> freely available
> true-type font to OpenType (for devanagari script). If you think this is
> important, let me
> know which font to use. The font should not have any licenses/restrictions
> attached with it :)
>
>
> -shrinath
>