On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Vinod Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 25 July 2011 15:02, Arjuna Rao Chavala <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vinod,
>>
>> Thanks for your detailed explanation. Volt is proprietary software. Is it
>> possible to transform so that it is compatible with fontforge.
>>
>>>
>>> It is free tool for developing OpenType fonts. The fonts developed using
> Volt do not become proprietary because the tool is. The Source version of
> the font will be according to the Volt conventions and GUI but you can open
> the binary form of the font in FontForge and make it into FontForge Source
> form, I suppose. Prof Nagarjuna team developed all his fonts under
> FontForge.
>
> I remember that I had a showdown with Prof R K Joshi over this issue. At
> the end when all the fonts were made using Volt, RK comes up with the idea
> that now we will do it in FontForge as Volt is proprietary. Why did he not
> think of this early in the project?
>
I know the font files can be opened in fontforge. I do not know any
compatibility limitations.
>
> I found out that CDAC's CD is not compatible with GPL. It prohibits
> commercial usage. There is no public site for tracking bugs and making
> revisions, nor there is any response when users suggest bugs and are ready
> to provide fixes.
>
>
>> Show me where you found this in the IndiX site. Let me quote to you
excerpts from The IndiX Project LICENSE for software:
--cut--
Sorry for the confusion. I meant the TDIL CD consisting of fonts, tools not
your indix-2. I am glad to know that IndiX-2 is using GPL V2.
We need Indian contributors to take this up. I also explored to build a
team but found luke warm response from Ind Linux community.
>
>> Interesting idea, may be suitable for text terminal as well in linux.
> Your approach seems to be updating XFree86 libraries. Will there be any
> conflict with Pango? If it is possible to implement it as a pango module,
> without other changes, it will be useful, as we need to have one
> configurable library which can handle all the world's languages.
>
> XFree86 library update is what we had to do for implementing IndiX on Linux
> distributions whose GUI is X11. The IndiX library has also been implemented
> in other software like our printools. Interestingly, Mozilla browser worked
> without any modifications on IndiX distribution (Knoppix with IndiX enable
> XFree86 and IndiX fonts. This is the Live CD). So our approach is not
> updating XFree86 libraries.
>
> I believe that the Intelligent font approach would work with all complex
> scripts. I am sure it works with the 9 Indic scripts. So modifying Pango or
> ICU will only be a simplification. You can forget about parsing each
> character in a syllable and tagging it with a four letter Feature tag.
>
> Thanks for the clarifications
Cheers
Arjun
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