[Tugindia] Typesetting Malayalam old lipi using Omega (omal)

Alex A.J. indictex at gmail.com
Sat May 3 11:44:17 CEST 2008


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:41 PM, V. Sasi Kumar
<sasi.keraladevelopment at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to trying to typeset Malayalam using Omega with the omal
>  package. How can I get old lipi using this? I found a small bug too.

Please read the documentation for a full list of options.
Use the following option:
\usepackage[oldlipi]{omal}

>  When typing ത്തോ, it does not appear properly in the dvi or pdf files if
>  typed in the usual way. I found that it appears properly if I
>  type ത്ത first and then add േ and ാ separately. But the other letters I
>  tried appeared properly.
>

Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't notice it. I'll release a patch soon.
It is not present in oldlipi though.

Regards
Alex.


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