How to use Devanagari fonts in Yudit Original: Sanjay Khatri 2000-02-03 Modified: Gaspar Sinai 2002-01-19 Modified: Gaspar Sinai 2006-05-21 Introduction Yudit is a free Unicode Editor, it can be used for editing text in Indic scripts in Unicode. Devnag fonts are modified public_domain dev fonts by Sandeep Sibal, , http://www.sibal.com/sandeep/dev/ Pre-requites 1. Download yudit-2.5.2 or later from www.yudit.org Follow installation instructions from http://www.yudit.org. 2. Download raghu.ttf font from http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/ and copy it into the /usr/share/yudit/fonts or ~/.yudit/fonts Note that raghu.ttf contains glyphs for Devanagari only - if you want to use other scripts you might want to consider code2000.ttf True Type font from http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ Note that code2000.ttf is a shareware font. For a non-paying free font just stick to raghu.ttf font. Good quality printing can be achieved only by using True Type fonts. Steps 3-5 (optional) 3. Get pango X11 font files for Indic. Please not that Yudit utilizes the PANGO_LIGATURE_HACK font property to render Indic scripts with X11 fonts: export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome' cvs login cvs get pango-fonts Alternatively you can get them from: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/extras/ 4. Make pcf binary fonts: cd pango-fonts/indic/ make mkfontdir 5. Set up font search path - you should set this whenever X11 is restarted: cd pango-fonts/indic/ xset fp+ `pwd` Configuration After installing Yudit and the fonts you need to configure the fonts to be able to use them. First invoke and exit Yudit. This will create a ~/.yudit/yudit.properties file. You need to edit a font property in this file, for instance: yudit.font.TrueType=arial.ttf,raghu.ttf... yudit.font.Misc=*-iso10646-dev,*-iso8859-1, ... Select Devanagari for input in Yudit gui. This is a clustering kmap - which means that a whole cluster needs to be entered to get proper shaping. Developers To create other clustering kmaps use the mytool -type clkmap option, like: mytool -type clkmap -kmap MyKMap.kmap -rkmap MyKMap.kmap -write MyKMap.my Other Indic scripts could be added easily to Yudit. If you want to add Please look at the following files: mytool/uni/indic.txt - new character types need to be added swindow/SFontTTF.cpp - very little change is expected. swindow/sx11/SX11Font.cpp - some changes for pango fonts are needed. stoolkit/SCluster.cpp - vowel placement for fall-back rendering modifications are needed. More Font Links raghu.ttf: http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/ Author of Code2000: James Kass code2000.ttf: http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ Have fun! Gaspar Tokyo 2002-01-24