How to use Yudit to edit Malayalam text. Written by: Rajkumar S Date: 2002-03-09 Yudit (http://www.yudit.org/) is a free Unicode Editor, it can be used for editing text in Indic scripts in Unicode. To input and edit Malayalam you need a Unicode Malayalam font. A Unicode Malayalam font is the font which has correct Malayalam glyph in correct Unicode Codepoints. code2000.ttf True Type font from http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ is one such example. Yudit can also use any Opentype rendering that is present in the font if it is corresponding to the Indic spec at http://microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/indicot/default.htm, In order to render Malayalam properly a good set of glyph for consonant conjuncts as well as corresponding Opentype tables are a must. A sample font, dc-font.ttf, has been made for Yudit which has a fairly decent collection of glyphs as well as Opentype layout tables to render Malayalam. It will be available for download separately at: http://www.yudit.org/download/fonts After downloading the font you need to install it: 1. Locate font directory: Windows: C:\Program Files\yudit\fonts or ~/.yudit/fonts Linux: /usr/share/yudit/fonts or ~/.yudit/fonts 2. Copy dc-font.ttf or any other Malayalam Open Type/True Type font you need to install to the fonts directory. 3. 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... Add the name of your font to this line, like this: yudit.font.TrueType=arial.ttf,raghu.ttf,dc-font.ttf Two key maps are provided with Yudit, one following the CDAC Inscript format (Mal-Inscript) and another (Malayalam) following a phonetic scheme. See the end of this document for the key assignment. If you are not familiar with Inscript then the Malayalam keymap will be more intuitive. Select one that is convenient for you. you are all set to use Malayalam. Please contact me if you are having any further queries with Malayalam Malayalam keymap a അ ai ഐ ka ക .ta ട pa പ sha ശ aa ആ o ഒ kha ഖ .tha ഠ pha ഫ .sa ഷ i ഇ oo ഓ ga ഗ .da ഡ ba ബ sa സ ii ഈ au ഔ gha ഘ .dha ഢ bha ഭ ha ഹ u ഉ .m ം "na ങ .na ണ ma മ .la ള uu ഊ .h ഃ ca ച ta ത ya യ zha ഴ R ഋ cha ഛ tha ഥ ra ര + ്‌ L ഌ ja ജ da ദ .ra റ e എ jha ഝ dha ധ la ല ee ഏ ~na ഞ na ന va വ