From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 03:53:36 EDT
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, arvind kidambi wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a grad student.My prof has developed a tool
> called "vedapad"
> > which is for typing indian devanagari script.I
> have incorporated it
> > with Abiword.Now indian devanagari script can be
> easily typed in
> > abiword.right now it is for windows platform.we
> are working to make it
> > cross platform.i encounted one problem in
> abiword.if the style is
> > heading 1 then the characters appear coorectly but
> in normal style the
> > characters do not.Any suggestions on how to solve
> this?
> >
> > regards,
> >
>
> Hi Avrind,
> This is very cool and extremely topical! One
> guess I have is
> that the font "Times New Roman" used for normal
> style does not have the
> required devanagari glyphs whereas "Arial" used in
> Heading 1 style does.
This could be. Since he's on Windows, I know that
Windows "fakes" Devanagari fonts to match whichever
font you have selected, when the selected font does
not have Devanagari glyphs. Abi may possibly be
making assumptions based on Times/Arial instead of
checking what it's actually getting from the font
system. This is a feature of Uniscribe and it's
supposed to be transparent to make Devanagari "just
work".
Andrew Dunbar.
> To check just select the font "Arial" and see if
> your text is entered then
> try "Times New Roman" and the other fonts we have.
>
> We're very interested in your project as we are
> right now discussing how
> best to deal with complex scripts from South Asia.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
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