Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Free Tibetan Script Font - savannah.nongnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:24:42PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Christopher Fynn <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Free Tibetan Script Font
> System name: free-tibetan
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Project to develop a free Tibeatan script font (for Tibetan, Dzongkha,
> Ladakhi etc languages) - for use with iso10646 (Unicode) encoded
> documents. The font will be based on my earlier free "Tibetan Modern A"
> font which was first released in 1994. [The original "Tibetan Modern A"
> font is currently available at:
> http://seasrc.th.net/sealang-l/font/tibmda.zip ,
> http://user.dtcc.edu/~berlin/font/downloads/tibmda.zip and numeous other
> places - and included in some linux disritibutions.] 

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> The font will be updated to include many additonal glyphs needed for
> translitteration of Sanskrit and words from other languages into Tibetan
> script. Open type layout tables etc will be added to the font for so that
> it works with Pango etc.

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailled information about the approval.

Please remember to import a copy of the GPL (available from here
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt) when you import your work
into the CVS.

Regards,

-- 
Elfyn McBratney
beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org

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