Re: [Indic-computing-users] Help needed for modifying Akruti Devnagari font.

[Sayamindu D. <unm...@So...>]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:44, Baiju M wrote:
> 
> --- Sayamindu Dasgupta <unm...@So...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 07:51, Arun M wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > We are working on linux localisation in HBCSE under
> > guidance of Mr.
> > > > > Nagarjuna. We hv been able to partially transform the
> > font to unicode
> > > > > mapping. Although we could not figure out where to place
> > the glyphs
> > > > > required for jodaksharas as no positions are specified
> > for them. 
> > > > 
> > > > The Unicode standard only defines the base characters and
> > for
> > > > yuktakshars you need to add open type tables (ie, convert
> > the fonts into
> > > > OTF)
> > > > for OTF creation, you would need M$ Volt (does any Free
> > alternative
> > > > exist??)
> > > 
> > > PfaEdit.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > how do you handle the features in there ??
> 
> Infact PfaEdit can use for making working OpenType font for any
> indian language, but now it will not assign the standared
> features for indian languages (registred by Microsoft).
> So after making a rough OTF font by using PfaEdit, 
> you can manually edit the tables after dumping the 
> font to XML by using TTX. (I mentioned about these things in a
> prvious mail, please look into that)
> 

..goody - i will look into that
until now, i had been running M$ Volt under Wine :P
-sdg-