[Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm ISCII support patch (was: Re: mlterm ISCII support)

[Araki K. <j00...@ip...>]

	Hi,

	Subject: Re: mlterm ISCII support
	From: Jyotirmoy Saikia <jm...@cs...>
	Message-ID: <Pin...@cs...>
	Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 01:48:01 -0500 (EST)

> Wish you both a very happy, bright and prosperous new year.

       Happy New Year !

> Now let me tell you some important characterstics of Indian languages.

       Thanks a lot!
       I don't still understand all about ISCII , which is very complicated and
       I began study only a few days ago... , but I know it more:)

       Then , I made an ISCII support patch for mlterm.
       It is still a prototype implementation(unstable!) , but I can see ,
       edit in command line and copy&paste indian characters like iitm-term.
       Please test and give me comments.

       http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/6461/mlterm-2.2.0-pre20020102-pre20020104.patch.gz
       http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/6461/mlterm-2.2.0-pre20020104.tar.gz

       I prepared screen shots of mlterm and iitm-term , too.

       http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/6461/mlterm.png
       http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/6461/iitm-term.png
       
       mlterm depends on libind.tar.gz and truetype.tar.gz at
       http://www.tenet.res.in/Donlab/Indlinux/X-Windows/download.html , and xfstt.
       so please install and setup them in advance.

       # Please don't forget to install indian.h to where cc can find(e.g. /usr/local/include).

       If you don't use a tar archive but a gzipped patch , you have to cvs checkout
       cvs-current mlterm as follows.
       
       cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/mlterm login
       (hit Enter)
       cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/mlterm checkout mlterm

       after you get it , please do as follows.

       cd mlterm
       gunzip -c mlterm-2.2.0-pre20020102-pre20020104.patch.gz | patch -p1
       ./configure --enable-ind
       make
       make install
       export LIBIND_PATH=/usr/local/libind
       mlterm -X=false -V -E iscii -w 16 -m -C Malayalam

       o -X=false is necessary if you use X Input Method(e.g. kinput2) which conflicts with
         xfstt.(recommended)
       o -V option enables variable column width.(must)
       o -m option enables character combining , which is necessary since mlterm diverts characters
         combining framework for rendering ISCII glyph internally.(must)
       o -C [lang] enables [lang] glyph. Without -C option , Malayalam is used by default.
         mlterm cannot change lang dynamically at present.(optional)
       o -w [font size] assigns font size you want to use.(optional)

       pressing Alt_R lets you use ISCII inputting.
       F1 key swithes Inscript <=> Phonetic keyboard(?).

       BTW , Jyotirmoy , are you involved in devevlopping libind ?
       I have some questions about it , so if I finishes implementing this ,
       I'll send them to ind...@la... , but if you
       are a person concerned , I want to ask you now.

       Best Regards.

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kiken
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