Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@sudhanwa.com sent me a copy of a document in Marathi written entirely using the free font Aksharyogini and completely done in FLOSS. If you want to take a look, please click here: http://www.divshare.com/download/2219535-e99 and download the light document. No reason why Konkani can't work similarly! FN
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Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@sudhanwa.com sent me a copy of a document in Marathi written entirely using the free font Aksharyogini and completely done in FLOSS. If you want to take a look, please click here: http://www.divshare.com/download/2219535-e99 and download the light document. No reason why Konkani can't work similarly! FN
FN, I think I missed the point here completely. Was the mail talking about Aksharyogini font or about doing documents in local language ? Or, was it about Konkani not working similarly ?
A large number of the latest distributions do have Indic input-display-printing out of the box having the fonts, input methods in place. The means to make another language enabled as part of Indic enabling requires a few related building blocks to be in place, if Konkani has them it would be awesome if you can point me to someone to talk to about this so as to see how it can be pushed into Fedora (say)
I don't know exact details about Aksharyogini's license though.
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Sorry for confusing issues!
Sudhanwa told me about the free font last night -- which is exciting in itself. Copied to him for clarifying about the license, etc. Sudhanwa is Pune-based, I think.
The mail was initiatially aimed at ILUG-Goa. In Goa we have this strange situation of doing very little for Konkani in FLOSS, though Konkani uses the Devanagari script too (this is the officially-accepted script, though it is written also in Roman, Kannada, Malayalam and Perso-Arabic scripts). Theoretically at least, if Marathi and Hindi can get working in FLOSS, then Konkani should not lag behind. But that's not the way it's happening here....
The who's who of people in computing in Goa (including in proprietorial software) can be contacted via the CSI-Goa mailing list. Copying to that list too. Best wishes, and looking forward to something working here. We have long had a problem in matching tech skills with linguistic ones in our small State (Goa). It gets worse when we're talking of a smaller sub-set, that is FLOSS. --FN
On 05/10/2007, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com wrote:
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Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@sudhanwa.com sent me a copy of a document in Marathi written entirely using the free font Aksharyogini and completely done in FLOSS. If you want to take a look, please click here: http://www.divshare.com/download/2219535-e99 and download the light document. No reason why Konkani can't work similarly! FN
FN, I think I missed the point here completely. Was the mail talking about Aksharyogini font or about doing documents in local language ? Or, was it about Konkani not working similarly ?
A large number of the latest distributions do have Indic input-display-printing out of the box having the fonts, input methods in place. The means to make another language enabled as part of Indic enabling requires a few related building blocks to be in place, if Konkani has them it would be awesome if you can point me to someone to talk to about this so as to see how it can be pushed into Fedora (say)
I don't know exact details about Aksharyogini's license though.
You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote:
In Goa we have this strange situation of doing very little for Konkani in FLOSS, though Konkani uses the Devanagari script too (this is the officially-accepted script, though it is written also in Roman, Kannada, Malayalam and Perso-Arabic scripts). Theoretically at least, if Marathi and Hindi can get working in FLOSS, then Konkani should not lag behind. But that's not the way it's happening here....
Fonts is one thing but a distro in Konkani would mean having sentences with Konkani words and phrases.
On 05-Oct-07, at 7:23 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
place. The means to make another language enabled as part of Indic enabling requires a few related building blocks to be in place, if Konkani has them it would be awesome if you can point me to someone to talk to about this so as to see how it can be pushed into Fedora (say)
konkani is written in the following scripts - malayalam, kannada, devnagiri (marati style), urdu and roman. Afaik all of these are avalaible - so I dont wee what the problem is.
On Sunday 07 Oct 2007 07:31:45 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 05-Oct-07, at 7:23 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
place. The means to make another language enabled as part of Indic enabling requires a few related building blocks to be in place, if Konkani has them it would be awesome if you can point me to someone to talk to about this so as to see how it can be pushed into Fedora (say)
konkani is written in the following scripts - malayalam, kannada, devnagiri (marati style), urdu and roman. Afaik all of these are avalaible - so I dont wee what the problem is.
Hmmm. Konkani and Marathi used to be written in Modi too. Any font available for Modi?
On 07-Oct-07, at 8:49 AM, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
konkani is written in the following scripts - malayalam, kannada, devnagiri (marati style), urdu and roman. Afaik all of these are avalaible - so I dont wee what the problem is.
Hmmm. Konkani and Marathi used to be written in Modi too. Any font available for Modi?
what is Modi?
On 07-Oct-07, at 10:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
konkani is written in the following scripts - malayalam, kannada, devnagiri (marati style), urdu and roman. Afaik all of these are avalaible - so I dont wee what the problem is.
Hmmm. Konkani and Marathi used to be written in Modi too. Any font available for Modi?
what is Modi?
stupid question - ignore it
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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
konkani is written in the following scripts - malayalam, kannada, devnagiri (marati style), urdu and roman. Afaik all of these are avalaible - so I dont wee what the problem is.
Assuming that Konkani does not need different keyboard layout or fonts other than those existing, someone does need to input the words to get them on screen - that's about what I grasped from FN's reply
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