3 Mar
2004
3 Mar
'04
11:06 p.m.
Alex,
The malayalam latex is a welcome thing for typesetting in our malayalam
language.The "rachana" fonts used for this is also very good as it is a
nice font package and now "rachana" fonts are released under GPL.(I am not
sure about the licensing terms of "keli" fonts).But I feel that some glyphs
for 'koottaksharam's(conjunts) in the "rachana" fonts aren't used
at all.
But I am vary about the "mm" preprocessor( from Malayalam-tex 1.6 by
Jeroen Hellingman) used by you. Its source is not permitted to distribute
in the modified form without the consent from the author(see the "README"
of Malayalam-tex 1.6).You could have used the "indica" preprocessor included
with Sinhala_tex.2.1.1 which is licensed under GPL.
I have also made some modifications to the metafont files of the Malayalam-tex
to add some veriety to the fonts.But I am unable to distribute the same because
of the abovementioned clause.Now I have started to create some metafonts which
provides different shapes by changing some parameters.
We should collectively make an attempt to make the Malayalam-tex released
under GPL.
suresh p
3 Mar
3 Mar
7:53 p.m.
suresh p said on Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:06:07AM +0100,:
First, should not this be taken to the TeX user group?
for 'koottaksharam's(conjunts) in the
"rachana" fonts aren't used
at all.
In typing, no, there were not used; and the reason was simplification
of script. This move had almost killed the Malayalam script. OTOH, in
handwritten script, yes, the koottaaksharams were, and still are used.
Release of the rachana fonts will pave way for unification of the
handwritten and typewritten/type set script.
of Malayalam-tex 1.6).You could have used the
"indica" preprocessor
included with Sinhala_tex.2.1.1 which is licensed under GPL.
While somebody is at it, can you add UTF-8 support, so that we can use
unicode files directly in TeX?? And I guess that a single program (mm
or indica or robusta -- or whatever* ;) ) will handle preprocessing for
all Indic languages.
I have also made some modifications to the metafont
files of the
Malayalam-tex to add some veriety to the fonts.But I am unable to
distribute the same because of the abovementioned clause.Now I have
started to create some metafonts which provides different shapes by
changing some parameters.
Ok. I am not familiar with TeX. So I may sound idiotic if I ask why
metafont files are related to license of the pre-processor. You
certainly can contribute to improving support for Unicoded Rachana in
TeX.
We should collectively make an attempt to make the
Malayalam-tex
released under GPL.
Certainly a welcome Idea.
But the TeX people seem to prefer the LPPL, which too is a free
license ...
(*) Indica and Robusta are two varities of raw Coffee beans - but
then I do not about coffee either.
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