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@@ -170,6 +170,54 @@ Unicode characters are available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>. +The new Indian implementation uses the ISFOC standard fonts. We use +CDAC ISFOC fonts to display the Devanagari script in Emacs. They are +copyrighted, but we received permission to use them in Emacs from the +font developers. These fonts can be obtained from the internet, or +may be found in C-DAC products (including downloadable ones). For +examle, you can search the CDAC Devanagari font `dvsr0ntt.ttf' by +using some search engines and they will guide you to appropriate URLs +to obtain them. + +After you've downloaded the fonts, then run the following Makefile +to create the appropriate BDF/PCF fonts. (You will need `ttf2bdf', +equipped with freetype 1, to create BDF file.) + +TTFS= asdr0ntt.ttf:Assamese\ + bndr0ntt.ttf:Bengali\ + dvsr0ntt.ttf:Devanagari\ + gjav0ntt.ttf:Gujarati\ + knum0ntt.ttf:Kannada\ + mlkr0ntt.ttf:Malayalam\ + orsr0ntt.ttf:Oriya\ + pnam0ntt.ttf:Punjabi\ + sdsr0ntt.ttf:Sanskrit\ + tlhm0ntt.ttf:Telugu\ + tmvl0ntt.ttf:Tamil + +all: + for f in ${TTFS}; do \ + ttf=`echo $$f | sed 's/:.*$$//'`; \ + reg=`echo $$f | sed 's/[^:]*://'`; \ + base=`basename $$ttf .ttf`; \ + echo Converting "$$ttf to $$base-XX.bdf/pcf with registry $$reg"; \ + for i in 16 24; do \ + ttf2bdf -p $${i} -r 100 -l 0_255 $$ttf > temp; \ + sed "/^FONT /s/ISO10646-1/$$reg-CDAC/" <temp >$$base-$$i.bdf; \ + bdftopcf $$base-$$i.bdf > $$base-$$i.pcf; \ + done; \ + done + rm -f temp + +clean: + rm -f *.pcf *.bdf + +If your X server for X font server supports TrueType fonts, you can +directly use the downloaded fonts (without converting them to PCF as +above). But, in that case, you must give "Devanagari-CDAC" to the +CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING field of the devanagari font. + + DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION: (This is for a Unix or Unix-like system. For MS-DOS and Windows 3.X, |