[Indic-dev] Updates

[S. venkataraman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Radhakrishnan CV [SMTP:cvr@river-valley.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:34 AM
> To:	indic-dev@tug.org
> Subject:	[Indic-dev] Updates
> 
> Here are two pre-release example PDF's made by Alex with LaTeX and
> pstricks and Keli font in Malayalam:
> 
>  http://www.tug.org.in/download/mm-pstricks.pdf
>  http://www.tug.org.in/download/sanjayan.pdf
> 
> The map files and packages written by Alex endure the torture test as
> evidenced in mm-pstricks.pdf.  I hope that the sources of above PDF's,
> all relevant packages and documentation could be released by this
> weekend.
> 
> Alex is also writing an exhaustive technical documentation on how to
> tweak the existing maps if you happened to get a font with different
> glyph layout or how to write an entirely new scheme from scratch. 
> 
> He has written maps for some of the CDAC fonts too which will also be
> distributed sans the fonts due to non-free licence.  This will help
> users to make use of the proprietary fonts available in the market.
> Seems like Malayalam typesetting in TeX has matured enough to enter
> into the professional text processing world, especially seeing the
> printed results of 'sanjayan.pdf'.
> 
	[S. venkataraman]  I saw the document.  It is very interesting
because, if I 
	am right, it uses bold and italic versions of the font.  This is
something 
	very important if the tex has to succeed as a tool for
typesetting in Indic
	Languages.  Hopefully, 
	the documentation will explain how to create italics and bold
etc.