[Indic-computing-users] Fwd: Dushehra gift from baraha

[<rav...@sa...>]

 
Dear Indiccers,

Here is a fine gift from Mr.Chandrasekharan of www.baraha.com . I have been
using Baraha for some time Baraha devanagri is a fine set of fonts to be
released under gpl very soon. But as he says we could work towards
converting them into otf. I have thanked Mr. Chandrasekharan on behalf of
Indic users. He wrote back to me the next day. 

Which makes me ask what is happening on tdil fonts front? 

Anyway, some more cause for celebration! 

cheers
ravikant 

       ------  Original Message  ------
Subject: RE: crucial
To:      rav...@sa...
From:    "Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan" <ba...@ho...>
Date:    Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:34:30 -0400


Dear Mr. Ravikant,

I am very happy to read your letter. I will go through your website
www.sarai.net and read about your activities in detail.

It is unfortunate that till today, we don't have good quality OpenType fonts
that fulfils the basic needs of Indian language computing and be freely used
by people on all the operating systems. To that end, your plans to create
such fonts are very important.

Though Baraha fonts are not formally published under GPL yet, many users
have been using them to create new fonts. I will work on releasing the fonts
under GPL soon. Meanwhile, you are welcome to extract the glyphs from Baraha
fonts for creating the OpenType fonts.

I am publishing this email conversation in our group (groups.msn.com/baraha)
so that other interested people can also make use of the Baraha fonts to
create Open Type fonts.

Let the name of the Open Type fonts be different from the original name to
avoid clashes. For example, the font "BRH Devanagari" when converted to OTF
can be "BRHOTF Devanagari"

I appreciate your interest to contribute to Anakru Foundation (It is not
Baraha Foundation). The address information is available in the website.

regards
Vasu

>
>Dear Mr. Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan,
>
>I write this formal letter on behalf of the Indic-computing Group and
>Sarai,
>which is a part of the Indic effort. Let me first introduce Indic Computing
>-
>it is a voluntary effort, an umbrella, virtual organisation that
>co-ordinates
>Localisation efforts in various Indian languages, including Kannada and
>Hindi. Over the last three to four years it has played a vital role in
>making
>free software tools available to Indian language Linux users. I have
>appreciated, used and written about the work being done by the Baraha
>group,
>because as somebody who also writes in Hindi, I found it immensely helpful
>and easy. What's more, it has kept pace with time and provided necessary
>updates if and when I needed it.
>
>And your fonts remain unmatched in quality to this date. So, apart from
>your
>generosity this is what propmts me to write this. Basically, we are still
>struggling with a good set of fonts, as you know the govt. has not released
>their fonts under gpl and we therefore can't use them for our
>community-based, non-profit localisation work. It would do our common cause
>a
>lot good if you could license the Indic Computing Group to use and
>distribute
>it or, better still, if you could release the baraha fonts under GPL so
>that
>people could use them for development. The name of the fonts remains
>unchanged and the users would grow exponentially. Some of us will have to
>convert the ttf into otf, but that is something we are willing to
>undertake.
>
>It will add to the glory of Baraha group and, as I said, will boost our
>efforts as all the fonts that we are using our ugly and incomplete with a
>host of other problems. If you so wish we could also make a token
>contribution to the Baraha foundation as a formal recognition of this grand
>gesture. Let me reiterate, this is contribution that will go not go unsung
>in
>Indic computing History.
>
>With folded hands
>Yours Sincerely,
>ravikant
>www.sarai.net
>Sarai-CSDS
>29, Rajpur Road
>Delhi -110054
>www.indlinux.org
>
>