[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Arjun Sarwal]

Dear all,

(1)
Work is being done on a Devanagari keyboard and we are looking for feedback
on Glyph alignment.  The keyboard layout wiki page is

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Devanagari_Keyboard

and the discussion about the glyph alignment is here

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard


(2)
Work is being done to make Marathi font work. (and other Devanagari script
based fonts) I have attached below some email conversation to give an idea
of what all things we were trying. For all of yours' reference, I have put
up the fonts zip folder and the 'in' xkb file (both mentioned in the email
communication below) on the server. The links for both of them are
respectively-

http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs/Marathi.zip
and
http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs/in


regards,
Arjun

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Email communication attached below (ref point 2)
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I tried more fonts (.zip file of all fonts that I tried attached with this
email) but couldn't get any to work - I get the four number boxes (unicode)

Maybe I'm missing something...


regards,
Arjun
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On 10/14/07, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:

    I made the changes in xorg.conf .

    Then I edited the in file (/usrshare/X11/xkb/symbols/in) and added those
lines. (I have attached a copy of the in file with this email)

    I then made a folder 'Marathi' and downloaded a few fonts from the web
into that. (I have attached that folder as .zip with this email too. I put
that folder in /usr/share/fonts/ and rebuilt the font cache.

    Within write activity, it picks up those fonts as it displays them into
the drop-down list but I still can't get Marathi to work - I still see those
boxes with 4 letters (unicode).

    Please let me know if I am missing anything here and also let me know
other things that I could try out.


    Thank you.
    regards,
    Arjun


    On 10/13/07, Walter Bender < walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

        I put more detailed instructions on the page:

        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marathi_Keyboard

        To use the XKB Marahti layout along with US layout, you may need to
        edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "in" a
        second layout:

        XkbLayout "us,in"
        XkbVariant "olpc2,olpc"

        However, since we haven't yet modified the default symbol table on
the
        laptop, you'll also have to add these lines to the end of
        /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in

        partial alphanumeric_keys
        xkb_symbols "olpc" {

          include "in(deva)"
          key <AE11> { [        minus,          0x1000903 ] };
          key <AB10> { [        0x100092F,      0x100095F ] };
          //language key
          key <I219> {  [ISO_Next_Group  ,  ISO_Prev_Group      ]     };
        };

        Please let me know how it works.

        regards.

        -walter

        On 10/13/07, Arjun Sarwal < arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
        > I tried ara layout and tried an Urdu font - it worked fine.
        >
        > As I understand, now I need a Marathi keyboard layout to try out
the Marathi
        > font(s)...
        >
        > I came across
        >  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marathi_Keyboard
        > Where can I get the kbd file for this keyboard layout?
        >
        >
        > thank you,
        > Arjun
        >
        >
        >

-- 
Arjun Sarwal ( arjun at laptop.org )
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