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

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

Shusha was developed by Harsh Kumar and was distributed free by the
BharatBhasha programme (www.bharatbhasha.net). It is a non-profit effort.
Harsh, could you please let us have your permission?

Thanks,

Venky



----- Original Message -----
From: "Shrinath Shanbhag" <shr...@ko...>
To: "Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan" <ve...@me...>; "Tapan S. Parikh"
<ta...@me...>; <har...@vs...>
Cc: <ind...@li...>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: Nice to meet you


> Susha would do provided we know who the vendor is and he allows me to
> use it. Or if we know that it is under GPL or similar license specifically
> allowing
> modification of the core font.
>
> Most font's have a free for use but no modifications please kind of
> license.
>
> Does any one know if Susha is available free (as in both free beer and
free
> speech)  for modification ?
> or its vendor ?
>
> -shrinath
>
>
> ----- 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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