Dear Mr. Bernard Massot,
>A good introduction to font making is at
>http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/overview.html . However it definitely
>takes time to learn all that.
Thank you very much for this link. It is awesome.
> If you go to
www.maharashtra.gov.in which is state government
site,
> which is in English but is not able to speak common man's language.
>That one is a real shame. I thought web sites using hacks with ascii
>characters and proprietary unstdandard fonts were history. Maybe you can
>tell send them an e-mail (written in Unicode Marathi) to explain why
>they should use Unicode, insisting of the fact that, the current way,
>their site isn't indexed at all by Google.
Myself and my friends have written them but so far no further development.
>I managed to understand how to do with Fontforge. I verified the
result
>with the pango-view testing program. However it seems there are not much
>program actually this Opentype feature.
I do not know about this. Some of my friends tried to use Fontforge. But so far they are
not successful in it.
>The languages settings in OpenOffice are only used to
"determine the
>dictionary used for spellcheck, thesaurus and hyphenation, the decimal
>and thousands delimiter used and the default currency format". I think
>it has to be patched. I'll have to look at what ICU can do.
I am aware about this feature in Open Office and I think it works fairly well. However
there are no dictionary and spell-check facilities available for Marathi. Again somebody
has to take the responsibility and do it.
>I wasn't lucky with Firefox either. The "lang" HTML
attribute isn't used
>to choose the language in the font. The only way I got it using the
>Marathi L was to run Firefox in a mr_IN locale context. It used the
>Marathi whatever the web page language, but at least it means it can use
>this feature some way. It just needs to be improved (patched).
My Firefox browser is set to mr_IN setting so it should be able to do what we are trying
to do.
>
http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip Do
you
> have any idea of this font's license? It's not written inside the
> font file and their web site doesn't give information either.
>Best way will be to inquire with them. I will do that and will inform
>you.
>Any news? If not already done you could advise them to use the OFL
>license. See
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#license .
>By default people who don't think seriously about the question tend to
>use proprietary license even when they are not actually against free
>use.
Yes, I got a communication from them and they say that it is free to use Font but not an
open standard font or open source font. However, I got to know that same group who has
developed Sanskrit 2003 have developed Chandas.ttf which is a True Type Font and is under
GNU General Public License as per their web page declaration. It is available on
http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/ . On the same webpage they have also made available
Volt Project files for font designers. I am aware about Volt but have never used it.
Thanking you
With Warm regards,
Nitin Nimkar