From 8b2d5d800dcc0ebbfb9c2acd743c6daee1ee7a87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anivar Aravind Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 02:47:15 +0530 Subject: A readme file added for kalyani with text about its history --- Kalyani/README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Kalyani/README.md (limited to 'Kalyani/README.md') diff --git a/Kalyani/README.md b/Kalyani/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32f5da4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Kalyani/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ + +History +===== + +This font is the first Unicode font in Malayalam. +Initially it was named as Malayalam . +It was created by Shaji N V in 2002 from TeX archive font created by Jeroen Hellingman using a tool named Pfaedit. In 2003 Baiju M added GSUB tables to the font and renamed it as MalOtf.ttf +This was the default font in Sopananam GNU/Linux, (first GNU/Linux Custom destro with Malayalam Intefaces) released as a part of UNDP-KBIP-FSFIndia project +In 2008 Hiran Venugopalan revamed font and added missing glyphs and featuretables. + +Relevant Links +========== +Initial Release http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malayalamlinux/message/52 +Initial Malayalam.ttf and MalOTF Download location http://malayalamlinux.sourceforge.net/downloads/downloads.html + -- cgit From 212445937a4f9f9334c36f654f2d62490319922e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anivar Aravind Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 12:46:07 +0530 Subject: typo and spacing corrections --- Kalyani/README.md | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Kalyani/README.md') diff --git a/Kalyani/README.md b/Kalyani/README.md index 32f5da4..8a845f5 100644 --- a/Kalyani/README.md +++ b/Kalyani/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ - History ===== - -This font is the first Unicode font in Malayalam. -Initially it was named as Malayalam . +This font is the first unicode font in Malayalam language. +Initially it was named as Malayalam.ttf . It was created by Shaji N V in 2002 from TeX archive font created by Jeroen Hellingman using a tool named Pfaedit. In 2003 Baiju M added GSUB tables to the font and renamed it as MalOtf.ttf -This was the default font in Sopananam GNU/Linux, (first GNU/Linux Custom destro with Malayalam Intefaces) released as a part of UNDP-KBIP-FSFIndia project -In 2008 Hiran Venugopalan revamed font and added missing glyphs and featuretables. +This was the default font in Sopananam GNU/Linux, (first GNU/Linux custom distribution with Malayalam Inteface) released as a part of UNDP-KBIP-FSF India project +In 2008 Hiran Venugopalan modified font and added missing glyphs and feature tables and made it compatible to unicode 5.0. Relevant Links ========== -Initial Release http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malayalamlinux/message/52 +Initial release http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malayalamlinux/message/52 Initial Malayalam.ttf and MalOTF Download location http://malayalamlinux.sourceforge.net/downloads/downloads.html -- cgit