[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Arjun Sarwal]

No luck with "Lohit Hindi" font either. I see unicode boxes. ( For example
for the key 'h' , I see 092A , for 'j' 0930...etc)

thanks,
Arjun

On 10/15/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> > --
> > Arjun Sarwal ( arjun at laptop.org )
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> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>
>


-- 
Arjun Sarwal ( arjun at laptop.org )
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