#Malayalam fonts all how to#
#Malayalam fonts all zip file#
#Malayalam fonts all software#

And we continued to work on more complex projects. We developed input tools, fixed rendering issues, designed and developed new fonts, and defined and implemented many computational algorithms for Malayalam like collation, hyphenation.

#Malayalam fonts all software#

By 2010, we had worked with various free software upstream projects to build this computing infrastructure for Malayalam. I donвЂ™t have any training with computational linguistics. This was the first challenge we had to solve. Rendering engines could not handle many complexities of Malayalam script. Malayalam did not have functional bug free fonts (not only in free software but in proprietary operating systems too). There was a community project named Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, which had also stalled. I also found out that the Free Software Foundation of India did have some efforts in this direction, but that they had stalled because they did not get enough developers. It is at that time, I realized that, our computers had so many limitations with Malayalam, my mother tongue. After my education, I got my first job, and I started working on small free software projects and joined local free software community. When I was studying at engineering college (2001вЂ“2005) I was introduced to the free software philosophy and fascinated by its impact and potential. What initially sparked your interest in helping Malayalam be more widely supported in digital spaces? We reached out to Thottingal to learn more about creating fonts, and his other projects related to digital access. Of the <20 fonts that are available for Malayalam, he maintains and/or has engineered about 12 (the others are maintained by organizations including Google, Microsoft, Indian Type Foundry etc.). For the past decade, he has concentrated on creating high quality fonts for the script that is used for writing his native language Malayalam. Thottingal led the engineering work on the Content Translation tool, released in 2014, and designs and then develops work that helps MediaWiki support hundreds of languages.Д«ut outside of work, Thottingal is known for creating solutions that help languages be better supported by software. Our users will now be able to enjoy the improvements made over the years - including updated Unicode coverage, new glyphs, improved existing glyphs, much better opentype shaping etc.When the INR 500 currency was released last year in India, it featured a Malayalam font that was engineered by Santhosh Thottingal, a Senior Software Engineer on the Wikimedia FoundationвЂ™s Global Collaboration team. The old package smc-fonts no longer exists, instead each individual package such as smc-rachana-fonts or smc-meera-fonts can be installed. With all that in place, in Fedora 30, all these fonts are in latest version - for instance, see Rachana package. Vishal Vijayaraghavan kindly stepped up and did the heavy lifting of creating the new packages, and we now even build the ttf font file from the source. In a discussion with Pravin Satpute, we agreed to obsolete the existing fonts package and give each font its own package. Rachana is at version 7.0.1 as of this writing).

#Malayalam fonts all how to#

To reflect the updates in Fedora, we had to decide how to handle the monolithic source package at version 6.1 versus the new individual releases (e.g. Once it was agreed to follow different version number for each font, and a continuous build+release system was put in place at Gitlab, we could ensure that fonts downloaded from SMC website were always the latest version. There were lengthy discussions on the release management of the fonts, and it was partially the reason fonts were not updated in Fedora. Since then, a lot of improvements were made to these fonts - glyph additions/corrections, opentype layout changes, fontTools based build system and separate source repository for each font etc. These fonts were last updated in 2014 for Fedora, leaving them at version 6.1.

#Malayalam fonts all zip file#

We used to package all these fonts as a single zip file hosted at. The Fedora package smc-fonts has a set of Malayalam fonts (AnjaliOldLipi, Kalyani, Meera, Rachana, RaghuMalayalamSans and Suruma) maintained by SMC. This was originally written by Rajeesh KV and published at Soliloquies.