Re: Support for Indian languages

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi karthik,

At 2024-12-04T21:45:11+0530, karthik holla wrote:
> I am new to groff. Do we have support for Indian languages? I tried
> installing the required fonts using the script install-font.sh. But I
> am unable to get it to work.

As far as I know, no one has ever done any work to support Devanagari
scripts in GNU troff.  I also don't know much about the topic, except
that it involves issues around glyph combination (crudely, "ligatures")
that many people exposed only to Western languages or even Han
characters find surprising.  It's therefore possible that proper support
might require changes to the formatter, or perhaps just support for TTF
and/or OTF font format files.  The latter would deliver benefits to
users of all scripts, of course.

Ali Gholami Rudi's neatroff project[1] supports Farsi, which I think
addresses some of the same requirements that Devanagari scripts have
that traditional troffs don't satisfy, but not, to my limited knowledge,
all of them.

Can you contribute skills to this area?

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://github.com/aligrudi/neatroff

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