Re: Padma Digest, Vol 21, Issue 3

On 5/13/2007 07:11 PM India Time, _Nagarjuna Venna_ wrote:

> On 5/12/07, V S Rawat <vsrawatgmail.com> wrote:
>> While you are releasing an standalone manual
converter, would it be too
>> much work to develop scripts that transform the
unicoded text BACK TO
>> proprietary fonts (unicode to chanakya, unicode to
shusha, so on.)??
>>
> 
> A few people have asked for this before and my answer
remains the same
> - as a matter of principle, this will not be part of
Padma. However,
> the infrastructure to do it is in the code and the
implementation is
> pretty straightforward - if you need it there is
nothing stopping you
> from adding support for yourself.

"there is nothing stopping you"????

it would surely need developing programming script. I don't
know how to 
do that. So physical limitations are indeed there.

Anyway, even if it is not a part of padma extension, can it
be 
considered a part of the standalone manual convertor that
you are 
wokring to revamp?

> 
> Thanks,
> Nagarjuna

I can understand that you also have 24 hours in your day
like other are 
having, still, I am seeing it more from a philosophical view
point that 
there is so much confusion due to proprietary indian fonts,
that it is 
hindering the moving towards unicode fonts. We have to
struggle with 
that government released CD or search through websites to
find simple 
conversions. People are just fed up with this all. They
prefer to remain 
stuck with their prorietory fonts unable to find
information.

I have interacted quite some people in the real world,
non-techy ones, 
prompting them to convert their data to unicode, and their
single 
refrain is: "What if tomorrow I find that something
can't be done in 
unicode font? Then, my data remain stuck with unicode and I
can't 
convert it back to my current fonts. My work will come to a
halt."

Rising from scratch, Firefox has spread to become a name
that is today 
on everybody's lips. Along with that, firefox's extensions
and padma are 
available to everybody throughout the world for free for use
in a 
convenient way.

Can Padma become a platform bringing all proprietary font
users together 
and motivate them to move towards unicode fonts by providing
information 
and methods in easy ways?

-- 
Rawat

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On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:31 +0530, V S Rawat wrote:
> On 5/13/2007 07:11 PM India Time, _Nagarjuna Venna_
wrote:
> 
> > On 5/12/07, V S Rawat <vsrawatgmail.com> wrote:
> >> While you are releasing an standalone manual
converter, would it be too
> >> much work to develop scripts that transform
the unicoded text BACK TO
> >> proprietary fonts (unicode to chanakya,
unicode to shusha, so on.)??
> >>
> > 
> > A few people have asked for this before and my
answer remains the same
> > - as a matter of principle, this will not be part
of Padma. However,
> > the infrastructure to do it is in the code and the
implementation is
> > pretty straightforward - if you need it there is
nothing stopping you
> > from adding support for yourself.
> 
> "there is nothing stopping you"????
[...]

Hi,
  I have been watching this discussion, and while I strongly
agree with
you on the need for a stand-alone converter, I can also
quite
understand why Nagarjuna is unwilling to make it part of
Padma.
  Some of us, including a group from IIIT-Hyderabad have
been talking
about something like this for a while, and I believe that
they have
some summer students working on this. I have also been
thinking about a
more general-purpose Indic character processing library,
that will have
utility in many areas. So, let us join hands in this. There
is much
work, both technical, and non-technical to do. Please
contact me
off-list. I will also inform this list when we actually
start work.

Regards,
Gora

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