[Indic-computing-users] frustrated about IndicComputing

[LinuxLingam <lin...@bh...>]

dear all,

am feeling a bit frustrated about the lack of momentum and velocity.
at the bangalore workshop, we had decided to hold regional workshops, and to 
hold atleast one workshop by april end or may sometime, in delhi or 
nearabouts.

meanwhile i have gone and aggressively promoted this to a lot of people who 
have been working with me on indic font design since my school font contest 
days and who wanted to take it further. have been stalling them, hoping we'd 
rather do it all under Indic computing.

no cigar.

april end is leading us into may. reminds me of that old lyric on time 
flowing by rapidly:
will february march? no, but april may.

secondly, i was hoping to see a small/detailed report on the website on the 
march bangalore workshop alongwith the photographs.

no cigar.

thirdly, i don't see enough discussion+action on what to do with hinting and 
taking a professional, typeset-ready approach to font design.

a colleague recently tried out milan, and though impressed, asked me why the 
font seemed so broken. i sighed! here comes the hinting issue again. 
grid-fitting, pixel-resolving, and all that.

i wouldn't like to scare away simple-type endusers with unhinted fonts that 
look formidable.

to plod ahead, we must walk like an elephant, taking firm, strong, carefully 
meditated, and strategic steps.
i already feel quite sad about the work in patialia. so *much* work, with 
some errors in the fundamental work. they too are suffering from the use of 
non-standard encoding, unhinted, even non-professional-design font, 
non-standard keyboard, and many issues. all of these problems are quickly 
solved though.

meanwhile, the patialia funded project closes by end of may. i had hoped, and 
they hope, to have a professional font design workshop conducted well before 
that, and that leaves us with about 3 weeks.

zara socheeyeh . . .

:-(
LL