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

[Venkatesh \(Venky\) H. <ve...@me...>]

Dear Harsh,

Can we try converting the Shusha fonts to TTF?

Venky


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@me...>
To: "Shrinath Shanbhag" <shr...@ko...>
Cc: <ind...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: Nice to meet you


>
> 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
> >
>
>
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