Kannada in LaTeX...

[joy merwin monteiro]

finally has a non-hack solution - please check out XeTeX and Fontspec.
These packages allow one to input in unicode and use any open type/true
type fonts installed in your system without having to go through the troubles
of creating .map and all other files for LaTeX.

The results are mindblowing, to put it mildly. Check out what you can do in:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf
and
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=XeTeX

Now, the issue comes of good fonts comes up. Kedage and Mallige dont
seem to work as well as Tunga. Are there better Kannada Open Type
fonts anyone knows about ?

Joy
--
The best ruler, when he finishes his
tasks and completes his affairs,
the people say
“It all happened naturally”

- Te Tao Ch'ing

[Harshavardhana]

Are you asking about ttf-kannada-fonts? . This is a better project and works well this comes as a part of ttf-indic-fonts (a comphrehensive collection of almost all indic fonts)

Regards
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Harshavardhana
Z Research Inc http://www.zresearch.com/

[renuka prasad]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, joy merwin monteiro <joy.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

finally has a non-hack solution - please check out XeTeX and Fontspec.
These packages allow one to input in unicode and use any open type/true
type fonts installed in your system without having to go through the troubles
of creating .map and all other files for LaTeX.

The results are mindblowing, to put it mildly. Check out what you can do in:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf
and
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=XeTeX

Now, the issue comes of good fonts comes up. Kedage and Mallige dont
seem to work as well as Tunga. Are there better Kannada Open Type
fonts anyone knows about ?

did you try "lohit" kannada fonts 

[joy merwin monteiro]

well, neither seems to do any better. ttf-indic-fonts is a package
containing Kedage,
Mallige and Lohit fonts. They dont seem to define "||" symbol. had to go to math
mode and do this!!

Joy