[Project-ideas] New Visual Keyboard for Bengali

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jeh Agarwal <jeh.agarwal at gmail.com> wrote:

> As of now I went through Sayamindu Dasgupta's guide "Converting a legacy
> ASCII based Indic font to an Unicode compliant Open Type Font". I got a
> clear understanding of how fonts are made and how they work. The way GSUB
> and GPOS tables are created for substituion and positioning. Please correct
> me if I am wrong. The main thing that is required for the visual ordering of
> bengali font is in the way how the rendering engine works. Do you want to
> develop for any particular engine or all rendering engines in general?
> please guide me further on this so I can proceed with this project. Kindly
> also mention any tool or technology that is required.

The question at this stage is whether you have figured out a route to
the solution and, can make a convincing formal proposal. There have
been multiple rounds of discussion around this specific project and,
by now it should be fairly obvious as to what exactly is desired.


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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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