[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Rachana Malayalam Fonts -

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

May I know the status of the project I submitted afew days back (details below) 
?

Thanks
Ramakrishnan

 || On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 06:34:22 -0500
 || address@hidden wrote: 

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 s> Ramakrishnan M <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 s> License: gpl
 s> Other License: 
 s> Package: Rachana Malayalam Fonts
 s> System name: rachana
 s> Type: GNU

 s> Description:
 s> The project aims to develop proper TrueType and OpenType fonts for 
Malayalam script used in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The Rachana 
project which aims to revive the usage of traditional malayalam script (which 
is different from the one currently being in use, because a short-sighted Govt 
department thought of reducing the alphabets to suit the usage of typewriters 
in 1950s). Rachana (which included fonts and software) was till now non-free. 
This week, Rachana authors decided to make the fonts as GNU GPL and when RMS 
visited Kerala this week, it was declared as GNU GPLed and the copyright 
changes etc were made. I will have the fonts on a URL today or tomorrow (it 
will be in www.hackGNU.org/rachana). We would like to take the fonts from there 
and make an OpenType font out of the 900+ glyphs contained in the Rachana fonts.

 s> We would also like to have this as a GNU project.

 s> Other Software Required:
 s> The fonts require Pango and Freetype to render OpenType. Also to make 
OpenType fonts we plan to use the program called pfaedit. ALl are free software.

 s> Other Comments:





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