Re: [smc-devel] Malayalam Font doubts.

[Mahesh T Pai]

Baiju M wrote:

> BTW, I started working on a new typeface for Malayalam


Baiju, I hope you will pay due attention to non-printing characters. 
I am not joking - I find it irritating to find ugly things staring at 
me when viewing someting in a word processor with the view option set 
to display non-printing characters.

Malayalam.ttf has this very serious problem.

On the other end, I have a font called "sanskrit zapf chancery", from 
a site (can't recall the URL) run by somebody related with the ISKON 
(Int'l society for Krishna Conciousness) which has beautiful 
non-printing characters - spaces are rendered as lotuses etc.

Also, do not forget the special characters, like the opening and 
closing double quotes, © and ® html characters, etc.

And how about adding English characters?  This will help in rendering 
bi-lingual pages without having to specify different fonts for 
English.  Keli has this serious draw back.

( hoo boy!! did I ask for too much?? )


Regards,
Mahesh T Pai.