Fwd: Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Font

[Banukumar Rajendran]

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From: Vinodh Rajan <vinodh...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:31 AM
Subject: Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Font
To: cta...@services.cnrs.fr
Cc: Shriramana Sharma <jama...@gmail.com>, உதயன் மு <udhay...@gmail.com>


Dear scholars,

We are proud to present a working Tamil Brahmi font, which however we tag as "beta" just in case.

Named after Adinatha, the first Tirthankara of Jains, in honour of the Jains having introduced Brahmi to the Tamil region, this font will
hopefully help in properly digitizing old Tamil writing in the Brahmi script.

Digitizing in the sense of storing estampages as TIFF/JPEG images is of course important, especially in the face of decaying estampages many decades old, but obviously does not provide searchability. The second and more important step of digitization is to "textify" the contents, which is to store the contents using a text encoding, which is Unicode. This will provide searchability, cross-reference-ability and much more! For that, obviously, a font is needed which will correctly display on screen the sequence of codepoints which the text is stored as. We hope Adinatha will be such a font.

Adinatha is released free of charge and under a free licence (the Open Font Licence) so as to encourage its usage among academics and other interested parties, and to thereby encourage more people to be interested in epigraphy and our heritage.

Adinatha is based on the existing Brahmi encoding (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11000.pdf) and largely draws upon Dr Iravatham Mahadevan's 2003 book for the shapes of the glyphs. Any errors, of course, are ours!

Download link to package containing font and manual: http://www.virtualvinodh.com/download/Adinatha-Tamil-Brahmi.zip

With Regards,

Vinodh Rajan

Shrirmana Sharma

Udhaya Sankar

[N. Ganesan]

உதயன்,

வணக்கம். அழகான ஆதிநாதன் எழுத்துக்கள்.

வாழ்க!
நா. கணேசன்

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From: N. Ganesan <naa.g...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ctamil] Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Font
To: cta...@services.cnrs.fr

>
> 2012/4/16 Vinodh Rajan <vinodh...@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi Srini,
> >
> > It doesn't have AAT tables. The reason was simple. None of us own a Mac
> > :-)
> >
> > We would be grateful, if some one could add the relevant AAT tables to the
> > font. 
> >
> > But I heard that some applications in the latest Mac version have support
> > for OpenType. I think those applications should render the font correctly.
> >

So far, Adinatha TB font is not working in Mac. And, anyone has tested it
in PC other than the creators of the font?

Since Adinatha TB isn't working, can Udhayan's glyphs table be moved to
Tamil block itself & an OTF version and Mac version be tested in Tamil block?
That should work as Tamil Brahmi has no complicated conjunct letters.

If the historic style font of Tamil Brahmi is also available from Tamil block,
of course other dynastic era fonts (vaTTezuththu, Chola, Pandya, Vijayanagara)
glyphs can be drawn by Udhayan and others in the future for historic
fonts from Tamil block for scholarly purposes.

N. Ganesan

N. Ganesan

>
> > V
> >
> > 2012/4/17 Lakshmi Srinivas <lsri...@yahoo.com>
> >>
> >> This is indeed wonderful. Does this work on Mac too?
> >>
> >> Srini
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Vinodh Rajan <vinodh...@gmail.com>
> >> To: cta...@services.cnrs.fr
> >> Cc: Shriramana Sharma <jama...@gmail.com>; உதயன் மு
> >> <udhay...@gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Sun, April 15, 2012 4:27:56 PM
> >> Subject: [ctamil] Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Font

> > --
> > http://www.virtualvinodh.com
>