Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Re: template font

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 13:08, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 02:12 am, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > On 22/04/03 01:08 -0500, Deepayan Sarkar poked the keyboard with a stick 
> > and 
> composed:
> >  > Hi folks,
> >  >
> >  > I'm more or less done with the important parts of the template font. I'm
> >  > still working on writing out a description, mostly in case I forget the
> >  > tricky parts. Everything should be ready by the end of this week, but
> >  > let me know if anyone is eager to try things out before then.
> >
> > Can you send me the file? (personally)
> > Are you using M$ VOLT for this - or pfaedit?
> 
> Both actually. I figured that it would be useful to have both options. Do you 
> want to use it on Windows (I am working on a version right now in Pfaedit, 
> which works on Linux, but probably won't work on Windows) ? I also have a 
> Windows version, which is identical in terms of the layouts tables, but with 
> slightly different glyphs.
> 
> All fonts are in 
> 
> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/FreeBangFontDevel/TemplateFont/
> 
> The Windows compatiple ones are called BengTemplate.ttf and 
> BengTemplateWOVD.ttf and the Pfaedit one is called Hortuki.sfd
> 
> 
> > Also, how are you working on the yuktakshars - are you just covering the
> > yuktashards from yukotlist.txt ?
> 
> Yes. But we could potentially add new glyphs at the end.
> 
> > I have some (good quality) glyphs with me that can be used in the template.
> 
> Great. Don't spend too much time on it just yet, we might need to make some 
> adjustments.
> 

Ok, I went thru it.
There are some conjuncts missing - I will send in  a list later.
Also, I am not very sure, but you seem to have confused between
hae-mudhyana-na and hae-danta-na.
hae-mudhyana-na is as in aanhik -- right?
-sdg-

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