[Indic-dev] Updates
Radhakrishnan CV
indic-dev@tug.org
30 Oct 2002 16:54:57 +0530
>>>>> "yoga" == yoga <yoga@math.iisc.ernet.in> writes:
yoga> the last time we contacted him he had said around 25K for
yoga> the artwork of each font and he would be involved till they
yoga> were put into metafont. i will speak to him now and find out
yoga> what he would charge. (i like this artist because he was
yoga> involved in font designing and knows lot about them; in fact
yoga> he gave me a document prepared for a conference on elctronic
yoga> typesetting of south indian languages held in 1983!)
Don't waste time, draft a project proposal and push it to the TeX
Development Fund of TeX Users Group. I am sure, you will get the
funding for the project.
[...]
yoga> we would like to see if we can achieve both - phonetic as
yoga> well as TVSE kannada key board. our reasoning is as follows:
yoga> one of the chief drawbacks of phonetic approach is `speed'
yoga> and if TeX has to go far this has to be addressed. along
yoga> with this consider the fact that there is a large workforce
yoga> trained in using kannada key board. so that is our aim:
yoga> there is a person who knows only kannada and he has a
yoga> kannada document which he wants to typeset and we would like
yoga> to provide him with the necessary tools. this facility is
yoga> available for so many languages in the world - arabic,
yoga> chinese, japanese, ... but of course we dont want this to
yoga> delay a working kannada TeX and so will get out a phonetic
yoga> thing out as soon as the fonts are ready.
I do agree with you on all points considering the trained people in
Kannada keying.
--
Radhakrishnan