Hello,
it seems that www.celciustech.com has a bangla opentype font called
krittibas
could anyone gather more info about it??
-sdg-

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 15:36, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> hello,
> it seems that after all this hullabullo regarding bangla in linux, we
> are back where we started from - we need fonts
> it seems that unicode's policy is to provide only the set of *basic*
> chars for a particular script - the conjuncts can be constructed from
> that set
> eg :-
>       unicode ka+unicode hashanta+unicode ka = unicode kae-ka
> 
> this can be achieved only by using opentype fonts, which  have tables
> that maps sequences of unicode characters to a given, or to a given
> sequence, of glyphs in the font.
> so we need a bangla unicode compliant opentype font
> can anybody tell me about a good editor/creator for opentype fonts -
> even if it's for M$ platforms - i'm ready to use it
> i've dowloaded pfaedit for Linux - but i don't yet undertsand how to map
> sequences of unicode characters there to a given glyph :(
> any pointers anyone ??
> i might try to hack some font in that....not very confident though :(
> -sdg-
> 
>       

Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu

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