User talk:Hiran
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[edit] Keep up the good work
Good to see active participation from RMS in GNU Labs. Lets work towards a complete GNU System and Free Society.
Cheers --Pravs 13:49, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hmm, interested in cryptography
Create a gpg key pair and let me know we can sign each others keys and make the web of trust stronger.
--Pravs 05:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
We can meet here to discuss the developments.
[edit] Hi
- Hello
- I am here to learn abt wiki
- Its gr8 fun
[edit] Hello
Wow its holi today.
210.212.228.30 05:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GNU Corner (?)
Where you thinking about GNU Corner :-), when you wrote lab session rocked? --Pravs 10:54, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Font design presentation
- Talk about Unicode, Unicode blocks as in www.unicode.org/charts/, locate Malayalam chart, show PDF entry.
- If using Linux/GNOME, show default Malayalam fonts, in Applications/Accessories/Character Map/, View by Unicode Block, find Malayalam.
- Right-click on a Malayalam character to see from which font the character comes from. If you have 3D desktop, disable, else the window to show from which font it comes from does not appear. known bug.
- Malayalam requires a good set of default fonts, that you can get by default in any Linux distro. Show what is there by default.
- When writing a document in OpenOffice.org, you should edit the template so that styles will come with a suitable Malayalam font. See http://simos.info/blog/2007/12/06/openoffice-writer-training-notes-request-make-training-video-plz/
- DejaVu is the default font in Ubuntu. It serves well the needs for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic (LGC). DejaVu is an active font project. As soon as Unicode produces an update, DejaVu includes the new characters in the font!
- For Malayalam, it makes little sense to put characters in DejaVu
- You can have different fonts, and use the "font substitution" mechanism in Linux. In /etc/fonts/, you can say that for Malayalam, use xyz font.
- There is a process called "font hinting", http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Hinting
- Is used to give instructions to the font on how to render (show) when the resolution is low (as in TFT screens).
- Very tough work.
- Probably not available for Malayalam fonts.
- A GSoC project for a tool to help in hinting would be a great opportunity. But really difficult.
- Rendering issues with Malayalam and Firefox.
- Supposed to work in Firefox 3 (anyone to test?)
- Again, it is programming issue. It requires programming skills and knowledge of Indic languages.
- If it is eventually "solved", it requires more testing.
Hope this helps! SimosXenitellis 15:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)