[Indic-dev] Updates
S. venkataraman
indic-dev@tug.org
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:32:23 +0530
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> 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.