[Indic-dev] Project updates.

[yoga at math.iisc.ernet.in]

> 1) TOAST				2) Tutorial revision
> 3) TeXing in Indian languages
> 
> Developer are requested to update list members about their efforts. 

We are working on the KannadaTeX project but are also looking at 
accommodating all Indian languages. TUGIndia is funding the project. We 
have sorted out most of the TeX related isssues for which we used 
available ttf fonts. We are now developing one set of metafonts for 
kannada. One of the main problems for working on Indian languages is the 
input method - no good editors to deal with them. Interestingly, this 
problem has been addressed on the MS platform and many commercial packages 
are available where you can key in directly in any of the Indian 
languages. For kannada and devanagari there is a free software, Baraha, 
available which works very nicely. We have almost completed writing the 
required TeX interface to Baraha and hopefully it should be available for 
use by the middle of April.

I would invite comments / sugestions on the input method.

Regards......................yoga

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C S Yogananda
MO-Cell (NBHM, DAE)
Dept. of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012
Ph: 3942265 (O)
    6524056 (R)
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