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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I want to share some more things regarding tamil
with you. Unlike Hindi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tamil letters are continously modified until mid of
the 20th century as per the emerged requirements from print media. So maximum
number of ascending and descending characters are modernised, which leads to
improvementsin leading problems in Tamil. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Total Tamil characters are only</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Vowels = 12</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Consonants = 18</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>hermaphrodite</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> letter (Aiyudha
Ezhuthu, either vowel nor consonants) = 1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>combination of vowels and Consonants = 12*18 =
216</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Apart from that there are Grantha letters =
6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Total = 247+6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In Tamil there is no running letters style. So
there is no need to worry much about 'various glyphs depending on <BR>>
leading/following glyphs' as like other indic languages such as
Hindi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Following link is very useful for you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I hope above informations could help you to
understand something about Tamil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Srikrishnan</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From: "Gregory Pittman" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>gregp_ky@yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.info"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>scribus@lists.scribus.info</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>;
"Pierre Marchand" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pierremarc@oep-h.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>pierremarc@oep-h.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 4:52 AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Subject: Re: [scribus] Tamil in
scribus</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>> On 03/24/2011 12:02 AM, srikrishnan wrote:<BR>>>
Hi,<BR>>><BR>>> I have one thought. Just I want to share with
you.<BR>>><BR>>> I am a Template Developer in Arbortext Advanced
Print Publisher<BR>>> (formerly 3B2), in a STM Typesetting Environment for
past 15 years and<BR>>> above. I think in some aspects Scribus seems like
APP. For example we<BR>>> can open APP's file also in a text editor and if
we have knowledge we<BR>>> can make simple edits in the text editor
itself.<BR>>><BR>>> In APP, there is an option to create ligature
table, through this table<BR>>> we can replace or add a character for a
character. If such option<BR>>> available in Scribus it would be easy for
an user to make available some<BR>>> accented characters as well as
surrogated pairs which need very<BR>>> essentially in Indic
languages.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> FYR: APP's ligature table
syntaxes as follows:<BR>>><BR>>> replace 0x0B95; 0x0BCD; draw
0xE893; 'ka க<BR>>> replace 0x0B99; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE896; 'Nga
ங<BR>>> replace 0x0B9A; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE89B; 'ca ச<BR>>> replace
0x0B9E; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8A3; 'Nya ஞ<BR>>> replace 0x0B9F; 0x0BCD; draw
0xE8A8; 'Tta ட<BR>>> replace 0x0BA3; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8AF; 'NNA
ண<BR>>> replace 0x0BA4; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8B4; 'Tha த<BR>>> replace
0x0BA8; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8B9; 'Na ந<BR>>> replace 0x0BA9; 0x0BCD; draw
0xE8C0; 'NNNa ன<BR>>> replace 0x0BAA; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8C3; 'Pa
ப<BR>>> replace 0x0BAE; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8C8; 'Ma ம<BR>>> replace
0x0BAF; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8CB; 'Ya ய<BR>>> replace 0x0BB0; 0x0BCD; draw
0xE8D0; 'Ra ர<BR>>> replace 0x0BB1; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8D6; 'RRa
ற<BR>>> replace 0x0BB2; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8DC; 'La ல<BR>>> replace
0x0BB3; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8E2; 'LLa ள<BR>>> replace 0x0BB4; 0x0BCD; draw
0xE8E7; 'LLLa ழ<BR>>> replace 0x0BB5; 0x0BCD; draw 0xE8EA; 'Va
வ<BR>>><BR>>> the above ligature table created as per the characters
position<BR>>> available in code2000 font for tamil<BR>> <BR>> This
is good to know, since I know one of the problems with indic fonts <BR>> has
been the changes that happen with various glyphs depending on <BR>>
leading/following glyphs.<BR>> <BR>> Hopefully, Pierre Marchand is noting
this.<BR>> <BR>> Greg<BR>> <BR>>
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