[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi Arjun,

I took a quick look at the http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs/Marathi.zip that
you have uploaded and all the fonts  except for lohit_hi.ttf (Lohit
Hindi) seems to be non Unicode fonts, which are not supported.
Could you test by selecting Lohit Hindi in Write activity and writing
some text (ensuring that the corresponding Devanagari keyboard is
active?)

Warm regards,
Sayamindu


On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 01:30 +0530, Arjun Sarwal wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Email communication attached below (ref point 2)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> - Hide quoted text -
> 
> 
> 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
>         >
>         > 
>         >
> 
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