Re: [smc-devel] Malayalam Font doubts.

[Guntupalli Karunakar]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:16:45 +0400 (SCT)
"Baiju M" <address@hidden> wrote:

> >  bm> Ministry of IT (govt. of India) has suggested a list of
> >  glyphs
> > required for bm> Malayalam font (http://tdil.mit.gov.in) No
> > problem if we are adding more bm> glyps.
> >
> > But their list is very much inadequate for proper rendering of
> > malayalam text. We should definitely add more glyphs in the
> > private area.
> 
> CDAC's Malayalam fonts used for DTP purpose has about 178 glyphs,
> TDIL's list is only about 128. In fact if we are completly following
> new-lipi standared even 128 glyphs are not necessary, but in DTP now
> we are using a mixture of old and new lipis. Since we are using
> unicode the number of glyphs will
> never effect computing, if we have a font with 900+ glyphs
> display,print out etc. will change according to that, anyway we
> cannot force the user to use a particular number of glyphs.
> I prefer a font with about 150+ glyphs :)
> 
 In all cases wouldnt it be better if we have a glyph charts for
  minimal  ( eg TDIL list )
  nominal  ( eg CDAC )
  maximal  ( more than 250 glyphs )
 In each of these provide info on included glyphs & why they have been
included, whats the freq. of occurence.
Such info would be helpful for new font designers or any one wanting
to make a font.

Regards,
Karunakar