[Tugindia] marathi fonts, and TOAST

manjusha joshi tugindia@tug.org
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:24:17 +0000


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<P>Yes! That is true and we are at Pune , successfully using devnag package for&nbsp; Matheamatics Question Papers for Regional Mathematical&nbsp; Olympiad exam. (From years, at least 6 years , As I know) also good Documentation of Devnag of 25 pages is available.</P>
<P>with best wishes,</P>
<P>Manjusha</P></DIV>&gt;From: Ajit Ranade <AKR@LINUX-DELHI.ORG>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Reply-To: tugindia@tug.org 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;To: tugindia@tug.org 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;CC: howtos@frodo.hserus.net 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: [Tugindia] marathi fonts, and TOAST 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:52:14 +0530 (IST) 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;On 11 Oct 2002, Radhakrishnan CV wrote: 
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<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt; Have you developed any fonts? Or do you have any specific 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt; plans to do one? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; manjusha&gt; We are searching for exact requirement. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; I guess, you're a native Marathi speaker? Why not you try to 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; accomplish the following: 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 1. a free Marathi MetaFont font in different sizes, shapes and 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; weights. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;radhakrishnan, 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;as you know, marathi uses devnagari script. the devnag package already 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;supports typesetting marathi, as also sanskrit and hindi. and the fonts 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;that come along with devnag package, are quite excellent. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 2. a pre processor to use this fonts in normal TeX/LaTeX 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;the devnag package comes with a preprocessor. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 3. a mapping scheme to input Marathi using Roman keyboard 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;again, the velthuis scheme (of devnag) supports this. you just type {\dn 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;ajit} to get my name typeset in devnagari in the velthuis scheme. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 4. Omega Translation Process (OTP) to integrate the fonts into Omega 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; system which will facilitate multilingual typesetting, also it does 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; away with the pre-processor 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;this would be great. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; 5. a decent documentation for the user 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;there's always room for more and better documentation. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;in fact unlike the linux world, i don't find the tex world developing 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;HOWTO or mini-HOWTO files. i think this would be a worthwhile project for 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;tugindia members. another great initiative has begun from India, called 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;LOST i.e. linux-one-stanza-tip. this a collection of simple linux tips in 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;one stanza. (now only if a.r. rehman sets these tips to music, we are all 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;set!) 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;cheers, 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;ajit. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;ps: 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;how about TOAST (tex-one-and-half-stanza-tip)? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;TOAST 1: How to get an underline, which is better than what one gets by 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;using tex's command, i.e. which is closer to the baseline of a sentence, 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;and not under the "stick-out" letters like "y", "g" etc? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;use: 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;\def\undertext#1{$\underline{\smash{\vphantom{y}\raise2pt\hbox{#1}}}$} 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
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