[Oriya-group] More on Oriya and Indian language fonts

[manikchand]

Hi,

  Samyak has a good coverage though. I read the license of Raghu and it is
GPL. How far they are going with GPL is to be seen. Nothing about the use of
contours and glyphs are disclosed anywhere. If the complete font is under
GPL then it is OK to reverse engineer it to bring it to a uniscribe/pango
compliance. Otherwise it is inviting trouble. Some times back I had wrote
about the Absurdity in Gplisation of fonts here
>http://manik.in/blogs/05121101.html.

Gora Babu had pointed out in an earlier post:

>  Also, it seems that the OpenType rules in the RaghuOriya font are set up
to work with 
>the IndiX font rendering scheme, and some work will be required before they
work with 
>renderers like Pango, ICU, QT, etc., that follow the Microsoft Indic
OpenType 
>specifications.

Raghu's dependence on IndiX is scientific in CDAC's view. I personally feel
that MSFT's adoption set to be too limited and much over burdening for font
developers. For that matter IndiX is more scientific if not absolute. But
will IndiX will load itself as a module alongwith uniscribe? If not; its
future is sealed. Most FLOSS apps will stick to the standard modes of
Uniscribe/Pango/Qt/ICU. 

About the All in One Samyak:

>or, get the all-in-one font for multiple Indian languages from 
> ...
>The only remaining problem with Samyak is that it does not 
>properly declare itself as an Oriya font, i.e., "fc-list :lang=or"
>does not show it, even after it has been properly installed. I have asked
them to take a 

This multi-lang fonts create much clutter. For development, and maintenance.
It is a mess. 

I recently did some work on my font project which was pending for long and
it is about 100 glyphs for now. As I am doing it -fun-sake- I have no time
frame set for it.

With Regards,
Manik