Dear All,<br>            Please give a brief howto on making such a font for <br>non-techies like me (if it's possible for people like me)<br>sanal.<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Manoj M Prabhakaran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manojmp@gmail.com" target="_blank">manojmp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Check Meera font. Open the font using fontforge. It has complete set. Since the intention is to have a handwriting font i suggest to write all, as combining two glyphs wont make them look good. Let him write, use a medium nibbed pen, dont go with thick nib. Let there be more glyph in single sheet, like 60 or 80 (even a full content of 180 words per a4 page is fine). </div>





<div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div>If all the glyphs in Rachana are included, you can make a mac font too, using the MIF file we created for RachanaMac (<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/home/Malayalam.mif" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/home/Malayalam.mif</a>). The MIF file is currently under GPL, but we'll be happy to release it under other licenses too.<br>



<br>Manoj<br><br><br><br> </div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>If you can't handle fontforge, lemme know I will take screenshots and mail you ;)</div>



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<div>But if he is ready to write, I am ready to convert it to a unicode font !</div>

<div><br></div><div>If Karumbi is having any issues technical or aesthetically, i am ready to solve those if Kevin is ready to re license it under SIL OFL ;)</div><div><div></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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</font></font></div><div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/21 Hiran Venugopalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hiran.v@gmail.com" target="_blank">hiran.v@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">











നല്ല കൈയ്യക്ഷരമുള്ളവര്‍ ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ എല്ലാ അക്ഷരങ്ങളും എഴുതി തരാമെങ്കില്‍ ഞങ്ങ ഒരു കൈ നോക്കാം. സംഗതി നടന്ന അതു സ്വതന്ത്ര ലൈസന്‍സില്‍ ഇറക്കാം!! ;) (i prefer SIL OFL than GNU GPL +fe)<div><div><div></div><div><br>

<div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/21 Anivar Aravind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anivar.aravind@gmail.com" target="_blank">anivar.aravind@gmail.com</a>></span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> പണ്ട് കെവിന്‍ ചെയ്ത കറുമ്പി എന്നൊരു ഫോണ്ടുണ്ട് . പക്ഷേ സ്വതന്ത്രമല്ല<br>
2011/10/21 Anish A <<a href="mailto:aneesh.nl@gmail.com" target="_blank">aneesh.nl@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> 2011, ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 20 5:25 വൈകുന്നേരം ന്, Sebin Jacob <<a href="mailto:sebinajacob@gmail.com" target="_blank">sebinajacob@gmail.com</a>> എഴുതി:<br>
>><br>
>> കല്യാണി ?<br>
>><br>
> <a href="http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Malayalam.html" target="_blank">http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Malayalam.html</a><br>
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> ലെസന്‍സ് അറിയില്ല...<br>
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