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

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

Sorry, that should read OTF.

Venky


----- Original Message -----
From: "Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan" <ve...@me...>
To: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@me...>; "Shrinath Shanbhag"
<shr...@ko...>; <har...@vs...>
Cc: <ind...@li...>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: Nice to meet you


> 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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