Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:
>
> thanks for the help! but the fonts i want to use are
> not displayed properly on linux. when i open a tamil
> text file from the doze partition, it shows certain
> characters as junk. lemme be clear about my problem:
Is it a ttf? Increase font size to something like 24/26. I have the same problem
with some of deonaagaree fonts. The sites which I can view good in doze, are
less than ant sized text in linux. I don't know whose font definition of points
is screwed, linux's or doze's. But it happens.
Zoom in is the only one solution...
>
> 1. i cant create a linux faq in the docbook format
> because there are no tamil text editors for linux
> supporting the tamil monolingual encoding. (and i'm no
> programmer!)
But you know tamil and that's all it take to write one. I could write a
deonaagare(Marathee in fact) one becuase I know it well. I know how map spelling
patterns to indivisual letters etc.
Anybody can do programming but not all of them knows tamil. You can contribute
to a tamil editor with little effort. There must be a lot of people here, who
knows both, as you suggested at the end of the message...
>
> 2. i'm afraid if the linuxdoc team would reject my
> tamil linux faq because it's in plain txt / html, in
> which case i'll have to upload in my geocities
> homepage and inform the linuxdoc team that i have a
> tamil faq at a certain url.
I think there is one more problem. Font. If your FAQ is in linuxdoc format, and
exported to some other format, say PS. You need tamil font also to read it. That
makes it difficult....
>
> - Diwakar
>
> PS: a doze programmer friend of mine are planning to
> write a tamil text editor (rpm) which will solve the
> problem of tamil wordprocessing in linux. i'll supply
> the text and he'll do the coding. might take time,
> though.
Shridhar
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