Hello everyone,
This is a bit old thread but I am still stuck with the problem described in
previous posts.
First of all thanks to Mahesh ji for his replies. Increasingly, I believe,
Mahesh ji's recommendation about hiring a consultant is a viable option for
me.
I would highly appreciate if anybody here on this forum
suggest/refer/recommend a consultant with knowledge in this area either a
volunteer (as this is a non-profit project) or paid.
Best regards,
-Atul
PS. Excerpt from my original post describing the main problem is mentioned
below.
I am trying to introduce new characters (I'll design its glyph) in an Indian
language font and make it behave (in terms of conjugations - sanyuktakshar)
properly. In other words, the new alphabets will be slightly modified
version of original alphabets (in terms of glyphs) to denote subtle
variation in their sounds but will behave exactly
same in terms of conjugations. In my opinion what I am trying to accomplish
is similar to addition of accented characters in Latin alphbets. The only
difference or complication here is that of generating combined or
conjugated letters (a common feature in Indian languages which is missing
in many European languages, if I am
correct) .
As far as I understand, I need to create new codepoints for new characters
and then write rules for their rendering (especially conjugations) into
pango for this. Is this correct? Can experts please shed some light on this
and give me some hints how to accomplish this project?
Is their any tutorial or resource to learn how to add new valid codepoints
in fonts. Also, how to make a testing system for pango, so that I can
modify and build it on ubuntu.
If their is some better approach or if the approach that I am suggesting is
incorrect please advice me some right approach to solve this problem.
I am using scim and m17n as input method and work on Ubuntu 12.04.
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
> (apologies for the late reply)
>
> Atul Thakur said on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:02:49PM -0400,:
>
> > then modify it using a font editing tool, then after that what
> > should I do to use that modified font. How can I put it in my
> > keymap? This is one of the points where I am stuck at.
>
> You should look into documentation for the input method. The answer
> depends on what input method you use.
>
>
> > Another question is will that modified font behave in the same way
> > as the original (in terms of conjugation with other fonts)? If not,
>
> Obviously, no. There is a very good reason for it to be called the private
> use area.
>
> > to take care of that. How can I modify the rendering application to
> > take care of such instances reliably. I am working on a
>
> Ofcourse, this depending on the rendering system you use. This needs
> to be dealt with in both the font and the display / layout engine.
>
> > transcription project where some sounds of the voice are not
> > available in the target scripts. I just wanted to keep lower level
> > details out from my initial posts for the sake of brevity.
>
> Almost all Indic languages have a very reasonable level of support in the
> Unicode
> standard. And the Unicode Standard is well implemented in most recent
> GNU/Linux distros.
>
> Since you seem to have a very niche requirement, I suggest you hire a
> consultant for it.
>
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