On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:
> font creation is one of their activities. but they not know about the > unicode and other font related stuff. > > Indic fonts are very difficult to create. I have worked with Mr.Murali Krishna, an expert font developer. I used to write dongle protected keyboard drivers for his commercial fonts. Please ask the student to get in touch with me off-list. I can introduce them to him. He is THE authority for pro grade south Indian fonts. Creating Indic fonts are a mix of Artistry, Carpentry (in the sense of joins) and Technology. Tamil is relatively easy. Other south Indian fonts require incredible number of joins to realise the entire character set. Then comes the concept of `kerning` which requires language skills too. On an [OT] note, it's incredible that he was honored with doctorate in Singapore and Sri Lanka for his contribution to tamil computing. Wonderful, he was not even invited to our great world Tamil conference :) Regards, Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
