[Indic-computing-users] SITEWATCH: Mukta Bangla Fonts Project... offers a new font

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   [28]The Mukta Bangla Fonts Project announces new font

   Posted by: sayamindu on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 10:41 AM
   [29]Localization The [30]Mukta (Free) Bangla Fonts Project is happy to
   announce the release of the Sagar Open Type Font for [31]Bangla. Sagar
   (The Sea) is the fifth font set of the Mukta Bangla Fonts family, and
   has been designed from the glyphs (letters) created by Mr Omi Azad
   from Bangladesh.

   Sayamindu Dasgupta, a developer of the project re-encoded the original
   TrueType font submitted by Mr Azad, and this is the first font of the
   Mukta Bangla Fonts Project which takes advantage of the "template
   system" designed by Deepayan Sarcar. (who is also a developer in the
   project.) This is also the first font of the project to be developed
   using completely Free tools. The font can be downloaded
   from[32]http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/downloads.html

   About the Mukta Bangla Fonts Project

   The Mukta (Free) Bangla Fonts Project is a completely volunteer run
   effort to provide Free/Open Source OpenType fonts for the Bangla
   (Bengali) language. It has untill now released five distinct font
   sets. It is a sub project of the "Ankur - Bengali in Free/Libre/Open
   Source Software Project", and is actively involved in the Bengali
   localization process. It also offers a place for discussions on
   matters related to Bengali language computing, especially on Unicode
   and OpenType issues.

   About OpenType Fonts

   The OpenType font standard is a new standard proposed by Microsoft and
   Adobe, and fonts following the OpenType standard are extensively used
   in Indic localization projects. OpenType fonts have certain features
   which make the handling of the large number of conjuncts present in
   Indic scripts much easier.