A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project

[Pramode C.E.]

Hello,

It's great to know that you are interested in
implementing a new Malayalam font. Please get
in touch with Praveen of the SMC project (this message
is Cc'd to him - his id is pravi.a at gmail.com ) -
you can discuss things and take the idea forward!
And, by the way, if you need any assistance with the
Neo, do get in touch with me!

Regards,
Pramode
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--- Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a student at The University of Reading, UK, on
> the Masters degree
> in Typeface Design -
> http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/ - and am working
> on free software fonts.
> 
> A significant part of the course is developing our
> typeface into a
> family with a complex script complement, and full
> OpenType features.
> 
> I am considering designing an original Malayalam
> typeface designed for
> reading long passages of text on screen, that will
> be wholly created
> with and released as free software.
> 
> I found your contact details when researching the
> SMC group's recent
> activity this year, and your excellent post about
> the Software Freedom
> Day event at
> http://pramode-ce.livejournal.com/69450.html
> 
> So I thought I'd email you to see if you would be
> interested in
> contributing to my project a little.
> 
> I would be very grateful if you could tell me (or
> email digital
> photos) about the kinds of documents you make and
> print, and how much
> text created by free software is read on-screen or
> printed out. In
> fact, general descriptions about how widely used
> GNU/Linux is, and
> what kinds of things it is used for, in Kerala,
> would be great :-)
> 
> I also saw your blog post about the Neo1979, which
> is very encouraging
> for me, as I'd like to concentrate on the screen of
> the Neo1979 as one
> of the user scenarios for the thorough testing of my
> font :-)
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Dave
> 



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