--- "Sukhi Venkat (TnQ)" <skvenkat at tnq.co.in> wrote: [...] > Apple's AAT seems to render Indic fonts well. I have checked out > XeTeX (http://scripts.sil.org/xetex) for Tamil throughly and it works
> fine. You can check out XeTeX for Oriya, but you need access to a Mac OS > X and you need to know a bit of TeX. I do extensively use TeX and LaTeX, and a version that worked easily with Unicode would be wonderful. Access to Mac OS X is more problematic for me, but is possible on and off. Is the specification for AAT open? Is there documentation available? From what little I have learnt from other people, AAT is proprietary, and poorly documented. > I found UTF-8 OS support in Fedora Core 3 for Tamil has some bugs but > it works fine in XeTeX's PDF renderer. I suppose for KDE the support > comes from Trolltech's Qt... Fedora Core 4 is much improved from Core 3, though there are still some issues, such as printing from Mozilla. I do not know about Tamil in particular, but if you would care to file a bug report, TrollTech (makers of QT) has been quite responsive. Alternatively, we at IndLinux will soon initiate a program to allow testing of rendering of Indian scripts, so you could participate in that. Likewise, ICU and Pango do take heed of properly filed bug reports. > How good is the Oriya rendering at the OS level in Linux, e.g. in a > UTF-8 text editor like gedit? After the recent series of bug-fixes, Oriya works perfectly in ICU, Pango/ GTK (i.e., from GNOME 2.12 onwards), and QT4 (should be incorporated in KDE4), at least as far as the rendering of the comprehensive set of conjuncts using the available open-source Oriya OpenType fonts goes. Regards, Gora __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com
