dear friends, i would like to share the msg from ms. ambika, a student of anna univ M.Sc. (CS-FOSS) online course. Imbibing the FOSS spirit, she has used FOSS tools while helping the release of a book on Ramanujam. we should also appreciate the efforts of her husband Prof Vanchinathan in contributing to the tamil repertoire thru his translation. srinivasan.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ambika V <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:57 PM Subject: Book release using FOSS To: Dear All, I'm happy to inform you that my husband Professor Vanchinathan translated the biography of the Mathematician Ramanujan in to tamil from Robert Kanigel's book "The Man Who Knew Infinity". I'm also happy to have contributed to it by typesetting the book using FOSS XeLaTeX and using free tamil fonts. Pagination, indexing everything related to book has been done using this software in the Linux Mint environment along with ibus supporting tamil input in Gedit. Also used sed editor for special purposes. Refer to info about the book release: (Page 2 of Todays's-22nd december The Hindu) http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/ramanujan-bio-released-in-tamil/article5488341.ece Regards, Ambika _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
