Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Free UCS outline font

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

From:           	Primoz Peterlin <pri...@bi...>

> the PfaEdit PostScript
> font editor <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/>, 

I went through the manual pages. I did not find info on how do I add 
the OpnType Layouts. Currently I am creating a OpenType font for 
Kannada using Microsofft's VOLT.

> As Indic scripts seem to remain Unicode's largest grey area, I was
> very happy when Prof. Hariharan told me of this project, as it seems
> that a large portion of knowledge is concentrated here.
> 
> As a first question, I would like to ask whether there is any
> agreement on the sets of ligatures needed to render particular Indic
> scripts, i.e.
<snif>
> What is the situation with other Indic scripts?

As far as Kannada is considered, tere is a standard. There is also a 
free Kannada script software (for Windows) available for FREE 
download at http://www.bangaloreit.com/html/education/Nudi.html. The 
s/w includes the standard font (glyph set).

For OpenType font, we need more glyphs. There is no need of any font 
glyph set standard for OpenType font. It is the job of the rendering 
engine (Uniscribe on Windows XP) to display the font properly. 

-Pavanaja
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
Editor, Vishva Kannada
World's first Internet magazine in Kannada
http://www.vishvakannada.com/

Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes