Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-13 Thread karthik holla
I have raised an issue in the neatroff GitHub page. With regards Karthik On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, 11:42 Damian McGuckin, wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, onf wrote: > > > Try contacting neatroff's author; I heard that he is very > > approachable. I am sure he would, at the least, like to > > hear abou

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-09 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, onf wrote: Try contacting neatroff's author; I heard that he is very approachable. I am sure he would, at the least, like to hear about an area of neatroff that could be improved. a...@rudi.ir He is a good guy - Damian

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-09 Thread onf
[also sending this to the list] Hi karthik, On Tue Dec 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM CET, karthik holla wrote: > Tried neatroff the fonts work, characters display but there are major > ligature issues. > Will try Heirloom troff and will get back to you. it might be that something isn't configured correctl

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-09 Thread karthik holla
> I thank everyone for your replies. > Tried neatroff the fonts work, characters display but there are major > ligature issues. > Will try Heirloom troff and will get back to you. > > With regards > Karthik >

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-05 Thread onf
On Thu Dec 5, 2024 at 8:41 AM CET, Oliver Corff wrote: > As far as I understand Heirloom troff ("The Heirloom Documentation > Tools", https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html) can handle > otf fonts directly. So this may be a feasible path for you. Likewise for neatroff (https://github.co

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-04 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Karthik, if I understand correctly the scripts for Indian languages all require extensive combination mechanisms for base consonants and accompanying vowels which may be placed above, below or even *before* the consonant nucleus of the syllable. Very similar is the Tibetan script which borrows

Re: Support for Indian languages

2024-12-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi karthik, At 2024-12-04T21:45:11+0530, karthik holla wrote: > I am new to groff. Do we have support for Indian languages? I tried > installing the required fonts using the script install-font.sh. But I > am unable to get it to work. As far as I know, no one has ever done any work to support Dev