Thanks for the information. I've already made the appropriate changes to ttf-indic-fonts source package, and the updated package (ttf-indic-fonts 0.4.0) should be available as soon as Jaldhar Vyas uploads the files for me.
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 21:09 -0800, Stefan Baums wrote: > Dear ttf-indic-fonts maintainer, > > the author of the Pothana2000 and Vemana fonts contacted me with > the following clarification: > > From: Krishna Desikachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: bug#302110: ttf-indic-fonts: tikkana font not unicode-compliant > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:22:21 -0600 > > Dear Stephen Baums, > Incidentally I come acroos your message about Tikkana > font not being Unicode compliant, which also contains some > observations about the Pothana2000 font. It is true Tikkana is > a hack of my own pre-unicode version of the Pothana font done > by some users on the east cost of USA. This pre-unicode Pothana > font, although very popular and used by many in North America, > did not conform to any international standard. Standardization > had to wait until a major vendor such as Microsoft started to > support indic unicode fonts in windows. When this happened, I > redid my old Pothana font into unicode-compliant Pothana2000 > and placed it public domain. Subsequently, I released it under > GPL. If this font shows it is un-editable, it is not > intentional on my part, the softwares I am using to create this > font is setting that flag. You are free to turn off that flag > to make it editable. Since it is now released under GPL, only > the licensing fconditions of GPL apply to it irrespective of > other earlier statements in the manual that accomanies it. The > short version of GPL licensing is embedded in the font. > > I recetly revised this font to improve its appearance > and for better rendering of some complex ligatures, and also > added another script faced font named Vemana, also under GPL, > to the distribution. This package is now available from my > website www://kavya-nandanam.com. I hope this clears the points > raised in your message. > > regards, > k.Desikachary > > In the light of this, please remove the hackedâup, preâUnicode > Tikkana font and replace it with the newest versions of > Pothana2000 and Vemana from the website given above, and set the > editable flag on those fonts using Fontforge or some other tool. > > Many thanks, > Stefan Baums > -- Soumyadip Modak Mobile : 94330 65971 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://soumyadip.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
