[Freebangfont-devel] Re: template font

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On 22/04/03 01:08 -0500, Deepayan Sarkar poked the keyboard with a stick and 
composed:
 > 
 > Hi folks,
 > 
 > I'm more or less done with the important parts of the template font. I'm 
 > still 
 > working on writing out a description, mostly in case I forget the tricky 
 > parts. Everything should be ready by the end of this week, but let me know 
 > if 
 > anyone is eager to try things out before then.
 > 
 > To mention a few problems I have no idea how to fix:
 > 
 > a. On Windows, IE refuses to recognize the font as a Bengali font. The only 
 > table that is supposed to carry this information (according to my cursory 
 > overview) is the OS/2 table, but that seems to be what it should be. This is 
 > probably a pfaedit issue, but I'm not sure. Any pointers would be welcome.
 > 
 > 
 > b. Both pango and whatever scheme openoffice on linux uses has a bug when it 
 > comes to rendering a conjunct starting with 'ba'. The 'ba + hasanta' is 
 > converted to a ba-phala even when not appropriate. For example, 
 > 
 > sh ba hasanta da 
 > 
 > is rendered as 
 > 
 > sha-baphala da
 > 

Can you send me the file? (personally)
Are you using M$ VOLT for this - or pfaedit?
Also, how are you working on the yuktakshars - are you just covering the 
yuktashards from
yukotlist.txt ?
I have some (good quality) glyphs with me that can be used in the template.
-sdg-



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