Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-23 Thread Christian Perrier
> May I ask you why this 50% border exist? Purely arbitrary. Experience shows that translation often reach the 50% limit quite quickly. There is a limit to avoid languages to be validated because only a few strings have been translated before the translator vanishes. We had such experiences in t

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-23 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Is it possible for Khmer to be included in beta 3 if the translation > > won't be complete of all levels? > > But in any case having an incomplete translation EVEN IN LEVEL 1 will > NOT make us withdraw your translations. > >

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-23 Thread Christian Perrier
> Thank Christian, I border you too much ;-) > But just one quick question. :-) > Is it possible for Khmer to be included in beta 3 if the translation > won't be complete of all levels? Of course. We strongly advise translators to complete level 1 and level 2. Then levels 3 to 5 should be complet

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-23 Thread kakada hok
> No. The D-I team meeting scheduled for March 4th will decide the main > goals for beta 3 (or RC1 I can't tell right now). > > Maybe will we fix ourselves a deadline at this meeting...or maybe it > will wait for the next monthly meeting. > > In any case, I doubt that the version following beta2 is

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
> Please understand that I am not waiting but i want to schedule my work. > If it is earlier, I will put priority 1 to this translation tasks. > > As beta2 will be released at the beginning of 1st March, Is there any > beta3 deadline coming? No. The D-I team meeting scheduled for March 4th will d

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-22 Thread kakada hok
Hi Christian, > > I might repeat the question that when will be the released date of beta2? > > then i can figure out how much time left do i need to finish all > > strings left to be ready > > in beta3? > Again, do not wait for it to complete the remaining work... > you will anyway be ready for

Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
> I hope I did not make too much confusion; the situation is a bit messy > ATM but almost under control, so it souldn't take too long before we > finally have a proper set of font for g-i. As long as we get the ttf-freefont line spacing problem fixed, yesbut I don't see the light, here...

Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-22 Thread Davide Viti
Gargi_1.7.ttf) pa_IN - Punjabi (Gumurkhi) (Saab.ttf) Frans has uploaded a new iso [1] which reflects all the changes necessary to make sure Indic scripts work properly (see [2] for details): now that it's available please test that image rather than the one I built recently. AFAICT the languag

Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-22 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 2/22/06, Guntupalli Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_pre.jpg > > [5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_post.jpg > > [5] is rendering fine for Hindi. Davide, I wanted to updated the wiki with the new infor regarding Bengali and Hin

Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-21 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:07:07 +0100 Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_pre.jpg > [5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_post.jpg [5] is rendering fine for Hindi. Karunakar -- * * Work: http://www.

Re: [Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-21 Thread Jamil Ahmed
Yes, bengali[3] is perfect. :) On 2/22/06, salahuddin pasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >bengali: compare [2] with [3] > > bengali[3] is perfect > > [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_post.jpg > > > -salahuddin66 > www.bengalinux.org > www.debian.org > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:07

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Best, > da Yes, the graphical version of the installer uses pango. We can display Indic scripts as well in that. It does mean that Khmer will not be supported in the text version (that uses the newt frontend). Cheers, FJP pgptjFjdqbbQx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-21 Thread kakada hok
On 2/14/06, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Kakada, > > I'm bringing the discussion to debian-boot, so that other people > > can fill the missing gaps > > > > > Are there anything that I can contribute to make Khmer available for > > D-

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:52:06AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:08, Davide Viti wrote: > > Here's what I got when stripping MuktiNarrow: > ... > > I got this with ttf-punjabi-fonts.tgz > ... > > and this with ttf-devanagari-fonts.tgz > > Suggest you file minor bug repo

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:08, Davide Viti wrote: > Here's what I got when stripping MuktiNarrow: ... > I got this with ttf-punjabi-fonts.tgz ... > and this with ttf-devanagari-fonts.tgz Suggest you file minor bug reports against the packages these fonts come from. pgph50DSjuodD.pgp Descri

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-16 Thread Davide Viti
lohit_* but they worry me. Maybe somebody > wit hmore experience in font work could help? (freefont guys, maybe, > since we might use at some point freefont for indic scripts, too?) lohit_* were removed from my current font environment, so I haven't tried to strip glyphs from any of those.

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-16 Thread Eddy Petrişor
uys, maybe, since we might use at some point freefont for indic scripts, too?) -- Regards, EddyP = "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-16 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 2/15/06, Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also noticed we include > DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: 858 glyphs [129360 bytes] > FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf: 790 glyphs [74588 bytes] Please note that the coverage for regular/blod/italic fonts is for many fonts different, so we must make su

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-16 Thread Davide Viti
> After discussion with Davide on IRC, I have uploaded a new version of > ttf-freefont in unstable with the following changes: great > I'l try to take care of the package as well as possible but I'll need > help for that probably as I'm not that deeply competent with > font-related issues. Someo

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> in the specific case of freesans fonts, oblique is slanted, while italic > is slanted and cursive; with other fonts, i noticed the oblique being > more slanted than italic, while not cursive. > We should evaluate how much space it's possible saving up if italic ttf > files are removed, and als

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2006 17:05, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Oblique is something even more "pending" than italic and the GTK What do you mean by pending exactly? Slanted maybe? Hmm. Are you sure that the oblique fonts are not used instead of italic? Anyway, I'd like to

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Christian Perrier wrote: Oblique is something even more "pending" than italic and the GTK frontend never uses oblique formatting, so the *oblique*.ttf files can also be deleted from font packages right now to save up some Kbytes. So, you actually mean we could remove the below *Oblique files

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
Viti, > bengali: compare [2] with [3] [3] is way better than [2]. That's a great job! Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose Free Software Foundation of India b.ghose at gnu.org.in

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> PS: Christian, I noticed that hi.po does not contain the "/Choose language" > in the msgstr; > now I understand why it is useful :-) I am sure I tracked these down. The error probably came back when a translator committed a work file he was working on while I was correcting this mistake. --

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:07:07PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: I forgot to mention that I also uploaded the xml map [1] of the glyphs included in the ttf files included with the iso. Columns are: FreeSansBold.ttf FreeSansOblique.ttf FreeSans.ttf ae_AlMohanad.ttf ja.ttf ko.ttf zh.ttf MuktiNarrow_11-0

Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

2006-02-15 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:07:49PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > This evening I'll put what follows into practice (i.e. new test iso > image). just done it: you can grab it from [1] > 3) It's also possible to strip the following (random) glyphs not > used in the g-i (there are certainly others):