From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Devanagari Key-Layout Needed
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Date: 12 Dec 1992 00:06 CDT
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
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Summary: contact C-DAC, Pune, India.
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In article <3191@contex.contex.com>, avinash@felix.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes...
>In article <1992Dec11.142046.20191@newsroom.utas.edu.au>, glenn.alldis@human.utas.edu.au (Glenn Alldis) writes:
> 
>> However we need information about existing key-board layouts for devanagari 
>> fonts.
>>    ***Is it more or less standardised?
> 
>I think that most packages use non-standard layouts.
>There is an organization in India, C-DAC which is trying to develop a
>standard keyboard layout and fonts for indian languages.
>I do not have their address with me right now, but I do have it lying around
>someplace...let me know if you need it.
> 
>C-DAC has been commissioned by the Indian Govt to develop standards for
>indian languages, I presume with the might of the govt, it will surely
>become a standard...they also presented font requirements to the UNICODE
>committee.
> 
>Actually, if you need to buy their software, it is quite inexpensive.
>For Rs. 600 (Indian, less than US$20), you can buy multiple typefaces
>for any one indian language, usable with Microsoft Windows.
> 
>> Glenn
>-- 
>---------------------------
>Avinash Chopde         office : 617 246 1776x5582
>avinash@contex.com     (...!uunet!contex!avinash)


  Hello Avinash,

  For what it is worth I have this file appended this message.

alex@dt.uh.edu

---------- appended message-----------

If you have any relevant information, then please e-mail it to:

		tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk

or send it by post to:


Tariq Hamid	                 	
 Department of Computer Science  	
  Queen Mary & Westfield College  
   Mile End Road  
    LONDON, E1 4NS, UK   


( Telephone:  +44 71-975 5245
  Fax:        +44 81-980 6533  )



                        ------------------------------

Duang Jan
---------

Computer:	PC
Printers:	Dot matrix and HP compatible laser
Type of prog:	Wordprocessor (shareware)
Scripts:	Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi,
		Marathi, Sanskrit), Greek, Gujerati, Gurumukhi (for Punjabi),
		Khmer, Lao, Roman (including Vietnamese), Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai
Facilities:	Allows English and one other language to be used in the same
		document
Limitations:	Cannot mix several languages in one document.
		Keyboard stickers not available.

MegaChomp Company
3524 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia
PA 19149-1606 USA
Tel: (010 1) 215 331 2748/8138


                        ------------------------------


Ecological Linguistics
----------------------

Computer:	PC and Mac

For Language Fonts and Word-Processors for: 

Bengali , English, Farsi, Hindi (Devanagari), Malyalam , 
Nepali (Extended Devanagari), Pashto , Punjabi , Tamil , Urdu , etc, etc.


For catalog(ue), order forms and licence agreements please send $5 and
self-addressed address label to:

        Ecological Linguistics,
        P.O. Box 15156,
        Washington,
        D.C., 20003
        U.S.A


                        ------------------------------

Ethno Multimedia
----------------

Type:	Fonts, etc.

Comments:

	From: ponnu@sun13.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (K. Ponnambalam)
	Organization: University of Waterloo
	Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:06:03 GMT
	Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
	Subject: Fonts for Indian/Srilankan Languages
	
	The following company has excellent fonts (more than 15 type)
	for tamil, telugu, kannada, gujarati, sinhalese, hindi, sanskrit,
	and urdu to be used from a Windows environment (TrueType font) and
	has fonts for Mac, NEXT, and Machines that can display Postcript fonts.
	Address and Phone No:  ETHNO MULTIMEDIA, 2055 DUNDAS STREET WEST,
	TORONTO, M6R 1W8, PHONE:(416)588-7193. This for your information only.

                        ------------------------------
GIST
----

Comments:	(from soc.culture.indian)

	From: datta@unislc.uucp (Abhijit Datta)
	Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
	Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:56:35 GMT
	Subject: Re: Hindi word processor for PC
	
	/begin{mysubject}
	
	There is a hardware-cum-software product that might well serve your 
	purpose more than what you are looking for.
	
	GIST (Gist based Intelligent Script Technology) as the product is called
	helps in transliterating from & to English Roman, Devnagiri (Hindi), 
	Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Assameese, Perso-Arabic, Russian, Thai 
	etc., there might be still further more.
	
	This is the product from C-DAC ( Centre for Development of Advannced
	Computing, Pune ), and it conforms to the language, font standards.
	It also has printer drivers for most of the printers ( dot, line, LP ).
	The choice of the language comes on the EPROM & has a state-of-the art
	ASIC (brain) chip.
	
	If you are interested you can ask for more information on the following
	address :
	
	        GIST Group Co-ordinator/Executive Director
	        Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( C-DAC )
	        Poona University Campus, Ganesh Khind Road,
	        Pune 411 007, India.
	        Tel.: 212-332461/79 ;   Fax : 337551
	        email : bhatkar@parcom.ernet.in (Executive Director)
	
	Just for information, this is not the main product of C-DAC.
	They are in the world of Parallel Computing ( Supercomputing ?? ).
	
	Cost would approx. be Rs. 6000/- (in that range), I am not sure if it
	depends on the choices of scripts. It also has an word processor ( some
	'ms', like wordstar ), also your language datas goes well with dBase,
	Lotus etc. As far as in India it concerns, it is a standard.
	
	Abhijit Datta
	ex C-DAC
	datta@unislc.slc.unisys.com or, uunet!unislc!datta ( 801-594-7623 )
	
	///if you are contacting & have any problems,you can relay things to me.
	
	/end{mysubject}

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itrans
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Comments: Lifted from FAQ soc.culture.indian

   ~Subject: 15)   Printing Indian Language Texts using TeX and/or PostScript

   TeX/PS:
           There are two transliteration packages for TeX that are
   available by anonymous ftp:

   1.      The first package, itrans, has been developed by Avinash
   Chopde avinash@contex.com, currently supports Devanagari and Tamil.
   It uses the Washington Tamil Metafont font (developed at U of
   Washington) and a Postscript Devanagari font (developed by Avinash).
   It also supports Frans Velthuis's Devnag font (see item 2 below).

           "itrans" is a package for printing transliterated
   indian language documents. The input may be in TeX format, or may
   be a dumb textual document (no word processing features). Version 2.1
   was released in October 1991.

           The package includes all C-sources, the PostScript Devanagari font,
   and the Metafont Tamil font. It is available as a compressed tar
   file, at these FTP sites:
   cs.duke.edu (128.109.140.1), in dist/sources/itrans21.tar.Z
   ftp.stolaf.edu, in pub/sci/itrans21.tar.Z
   This package DOES NOT include Frans's Devnag font, you have to get it
   separately.



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indianfonts.sit.hqx
-------------------

Computer:	Mac
Printers:	Dot matrix, laser
Type:		Font package, plus module for Microsoft Word.
Scripts:	Devanagri, Tamil
Comments:	
	[from Sridhar Venkataraman: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu]
	1. README - You must read this before starting
	2. Author's Note - Read this next
	3. Indian fonts - Screen fonts for Tamil and Devanagri
	4. Tamla - Laser Printer fonts for Tamil
	5. Kanchi mapping - An M.S. Word file showing the keyboard mapping for
	   the Kanchi (Devangari) font.  The font needs to be installed in the
	   system before you can real see this file properly.

	There is no printer font for Devanagri so it will print like it
	appears on the screen).  You can install the screen fonts using
	Font/DA mover which should be on your Mac (ask your system
	administrator or your mother for help if you can't figure out how to
	do that!).

Additional Comments: Lifted from FAQ soc.culture.indian

	Macintosh:
	
	        Macintosh fonts for Devanagari and Tamil are available by
	anonymous ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu.  They are in the file
	indianfonts.sit.hqx in the directory
	mac/system.extensions/font/type.three.fonts  The fonts are in a
	binhex/stuffit format.  If you don't know how to decode these formats,
	see the postings on comp.sys.mac.announce or comp.sys.mac.misc.  These
	fonts are absolutely free.



Avialable from:
	
	Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au   (139.130.4.6)
	
	  Location: /micros/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep 13  1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
	
	  Location: /mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep 12  1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host garbo.uwasa.fi   (128.214.87.1)
	
	  Location: /mac/mirror.umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     68953  Sep  5 17:04   indianfonts.sit.hqx
	
	Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk   (146.169.2.1)
	
	  Location: /computing/systems/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/type3
	      FILE      r--r--r--     62679 Sep 13 1991   indianfonts.sit.hqx.Z
	
	
                        ------------------------------

Kalam
-----

Computers:	PC and Mac
Type of prog:	WP and DTP
Scripts:	Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujerati, Malayalam, Tamil

Available from:

        Polydiam Industries Ltd,
        1c Aubert Park,
        London N5 1TL
	U.K.

	Tel: 071-354 1345
	Fax: 071 -359 9684

                        ------------------------------

LinguaDos and LinguaStar
------------------------

Computer:       PC
Printers:       Dot matrix and laser
Types of prog:  LinguaDos is a wordprocessor add-on for Wordstar, and
                Wordperfect, allowing them to be used for multilingual purposes.
Scripts:        Arabic/Faris/Urdu, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek,
                Gujerati, Gurumukhi, Roman

Available from:

        LinguaTech Bilingual Technology
        19 College Parade
        Salubury Road
        London NW6 6RN
	U.K.

        Tel: 071 -625 5820
        Fax: 071 -625 5842


                        ------------------------------

Linguist's Software *
-------------------

Computer:       Mac, PC, and others
Printers:       Laser
Types of prog:  LinguaDos is a wordprocessor add-on for Wordstar, and
                Wordperfect, allowing them to be used for multilingual purposes.
		( Also supply various other fonts and wordporcessors. *)
Comments:	Not ideal for Urdu
Scripts:        Arabic/Farsi, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujerati, Gurumukhi,
		Roman, Tamil


Available from:

1)
	Linguist's Software
	P.O. Box 580
	Edmonds, WA
	USA 98020-0580

	Tel: 0101 - 206 775 1130
	Fax: 0101 - 206 771 5911


2)	Apple Centres throughout U.K. and U.S.
	
                        ------------------------------
Misbah
------

Computer:       PC
Printers:       laser and dotmatrix
Type of prog:	word processor
Comments:	Ali, d89-ash@nada.kth.se, says: 
		"Rating...hmmm, it's ok....it uses arabic fonts 
		(like yae with two dots underneah)....not all that interactive."
Scripts:        Roman, Urdu


Available from:

		




                        ------------------------------

Multi-Lingual-Scribe
--------------------

Computer:	PC
Printers:	laser and dot-matrix
Type of prog:	word processor
Scripts:	Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Bengali, Cpoptic, Cyrillic, Devanagri
		(for Hindi,Marathi,Sanskrit), Georgian, Gurmukhi (for Panjabi),
		Hebrew, Inuktitut, IPA, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Persian, 
		Phoenician, Roman (including Vietnamese), Sinhalese, Syriac, 
		Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, Urgaritic
Comments:	Can accomodate the widest range of languages of any PC program.
		Files can be imported into Pagemaker and Ventura.
		Huge range of languages. Urdu is not available in Nastaliq style

Available from:

1)	
	Gamma Productions
	710 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 609
	Santa Monica
	California 90401 USA

	Tel: 0101 213 394 8622
	Tlx: 0101 510 600 8273

2)	UK Agents:

	2020 Technology
	5 Glasshouse Walk
	London SE11 5ES

	Tel: 071 - 793 0005/6

3)	India Agents:

	Mafatal Consultancy,
	Rajam House,
	Prajab Devi,
	Bombay 400 025

4)	Bangledesh Agents:

	Classic Business,
	66 Dilkusha Commercial Area,
	Dacca 1000

	Tel: 23 99 23

5	Pakistan Agents:

	Danishkada,
	P.O. Box 109,
	Lahore 54000

	Tel: 324810


                        ------------------------------

Rice Inverse Transliterator (R.I.T.)
------------------------------------
	
	       Release of Rice Inverse Transliterator Software
	
	[This post is for Telugu nettors and possibly for developers of
	software for other Indian languages.]
	
	This is to announce the release of the Rice Inverse Transliterator
	(rit), a free software package for processing text consisting of
	Telugu and English.  This software is now in the public domain and is
	accessible by anonymous ftp.
	
	rit is a typesetting software with the following capabilities:
	
	1. distinguishing English words from Telugu words.
	2. translating some English words into Telugu.
	3. transliterating some English words into Telugu.
	4. correcting spellings in transliterated Telugu.
	
	You will find this software useful if
	
	1. you post or read messages containing Telugu on s.c.i.t
	2. you cannot write Telugu but can speak it
	3. you write letters in Telugu (with English mixed)
	4. you write stories/poems/.. in Telugu
	5. you want a small on-line English-to-Telugu dictionary.
	
	Briefly, this software takes text like
	
	maa school ee city lo kallaa peddadi
	
	and prints it in Telugu and English appropriately. It can also
	translate "school" into "baDi" and "city" into "nagaram".
	
	To use this software, you
	
	1. need not know how to use LaTeX
	2. need not have installed TeluguTeX
	3. need not be a Unix expert.
	
	We think this software uses ideas that can be used for developing
	similar packages for other Indian languages. We invite developers of
	software for other languages to examine this package.
	
	To get the software, get by anonymous ftp "rit10tar.Z" in
	"dua1:[dviln03.andhra]" directory from 134.129.123.1 (in binary mode).
	For more details, see soc.culture.indian.telugu.
	
	This software is free and is in the public domain, BUT COMES WITH NO
	WARRANTY. This software is currently configured as a front end to
	TeluguTeX, but you are *not* required to have installed TeluguTeX. You
	are free to distribute rit software without any charge.
	
	We hope this software will be useful to you.
	
	Rama Rao Kanneganti
	Ananda Kishore
	
                        ------------------------------

Velthuis Devanagari Fonts
Type:	Hindi TeX preprocessor and fonts.
Comments:

	From local.tex-users Thu Nov 19 22:59:45 1992
	Date:    Fri, 17 Jul 92 11:34:00 +0000
	From:    Stephen Miller <STEPHEN@uk.ac.oxford.vax>
	Subject: Velthuis Devanagari fonts for OzTeX
	
	The Velthuis Devanagari fonts are now available for use with OzTeX: the
	pre-processor was compiled by Peter Robinson from the "Computers and
	Manuscripts" project and many thanks are due to him for this task. The
	manual accompanying the fonts/pre-processor is available as an OzTeX DVI
	file.
	
	The pre-processor has been used on the test file with success:it has not
	however been subjected to a more lengthy test--feedback welcome. Send it
	to me and not to the list please.
	
	Stephen Miller
	stephen@uk.ac.oxford.vax
	
	            { I've copied this into the UK TeX Archive in
	       [tex-archive.mac.oztex.contrib]devanagari09.hqx  --Ed.}

Additional Comments: Lifted from FAQ soc.culture.indian

	2.      The second package Devanagari for Tex has been developed by
	Frans J. Velthuis (velthuis@rc.rug.nl).  It has Computer Modern fonts
	for Devanagri.  It is available by anonymous ftp from
	june.cs.washington.edu in the directory ~/tex in devnag.tar.Z


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