Re: [Indic-computing-users] Akruthi fonts need to be encoded

[Baiju M <mal...@ya...>]

Now I started working on Malayalam fonts.

If anybody else working on Malayalam, please inform me, so that
we can avoid duplication efforts.

BTW, those who decided to use only *free* softwares for
developing OpenType fonts, use PfaEdit and TTX (Python package
to 
dump TTF to XML http://sf.net/projects/fonttools) and use your
favorite text editor to edit advanced OpenType tables
(GSUB,GPOS,GDEF etc.). 

Regards,
Baiju M

--- "Nagarjuna G." <nag...@hb...> wrote:
> 
> We started working with the akruthi fonts with a team of
> volunteers.
> With these set of fonts I think the following needs to be
> done.
> 
> 1. First the fonts are not encoded for utf-8 input method.  So
> the
> font file should be opened in a editor (pfaedit) and cut paste
> the
> glyphs at the appropriate unicode pages and recreate the
> fonts.
> 
> 2. The other alternative is to use the existing encoding which
> uses
> the first 256 characters of the kb, and make a xmodmap file. 
> May be
> we can use both the strategies.
> 
> Before we begin converting them to opentype fonts, we wish to
> make the
> fonts work so that the OS begins to support indian languages. 
> Since 1
> and two are not very difficult tasks, please find time to do
> that.  To
> eliminate overlapping let us announce who is doing what in the
> list so
> that we save time.  Our group is now working on the devanagari
> fonts.
> After our experiment succeeds we will inform and uplaod the
> results.
> 
> I also want the experts to inform me if the strategy is not
> correct.
> I am just beginning to understand the technology so I may be
> wrong in
> my decisions.  
> 
> Nagarjuna



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