From: sci-faq@asu.edu (FAQ Autoposter) Subject: FAQ: Indian Linguistic Software & Fonts (Free/PD/Commercial) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 14:32:57 GMT ------------- Changes since the last posting: o Added font info for Hindi, Gujrati, Bengali etc. from Intellectual Pro. Solns. - info@inpros.com ------------- Since a few entries have more than just the font information i.e. software in a language, I have changed the focus of the FAQ to include all software and fonts in Indian languages. This posting will be posted on the 23rd of every month. If you send any updates, please be patient for a manual acknowledgement. Please send all updates to sci-faq@asu.edu. ---------- FAQ for Information on Fonts/Software for Indian Languages Notes: * Those entries credited to Jeroen H. has been derived from the font informational posting for all languages previously maintained by Jeroen Hellingman . * I bear no responsibility for any inaccuracies in this document and would expect you to correct them if you notice any. No claims as to completeness or even correctness is being made. * As always with an FAQ on Usenet, any adds/mods or suggestions are appreciated. Suggested format for submissions: #L Language #M Author/Maintainer #C Contact for getting the font or any questions on the font #P Price #I Information on the location (if public domain or free) #O Platform/Operating System Requirements #A Recommended by ... #D Last updated ... This FAQ was enhanced by suggestions from: ---- Anand Patwardhan ---- Sridhar. =-= Sridhar Venkataraman ASU, Tempe AZ USA sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #L Hindi/Gujarati/Sanskrit/Latin #M Vaishnav Books Ltd #C Digitron Computers, Toronto, Canada (905) 454-3620 #C Digitron, 3 Smithers Cr, Brampton, Ontario Canada L6Y 3L3 #P $199 #I - #O Windows #A goyal@bnr.ca (Ashok Goyal) #D Jul 94. #L Tamil #M Dr. Govindaraj #C - #P $0 #I mac.archive.umich.edu: /mac/system.extensions/font/type1/palladam2.1.sit.hqx #I wuarchive.wustl.edu: /systems/mac/umich.edu/system.extensions/font/type1/palladam2.1.sit.hqx #O Macintosh #A sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu #D Jul 94. #L Tamil/Hindi #M Prof. Hart @ Berkeley #C - #P $0 #I mac.archive.umich.edu: /mac/system.extensions/font/type3/indianfonts.sit.hqx #I wuarchive.wustl.edu: /systems/mac/umich.edu/system.extensions/font/type3/indianfonts.sit.hqx #O Macintosh #A sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu #D Jul 94. #L Malayalam #M Jeroen Hellingman #C Jeroen Hellingman #P $0 #I archive.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/TEX/FONTS/Malayalam-TeX-1.1.gz #O TeX #A Swami Pallasena #D July 26, 94. #L Urdu #M Prof. Klaus Lagally #C lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de #P $0 #I ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de: /pub/TeX/arabtex/arabtex.{*,faq} #I sunsite.unc.edu /pub/packages/TeX/language/arabtex/ #O TeX #A sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu ## Uses arabic-style naskh fonts, persian-style nastaliq fonts under dev. #D Jul 94. #L Tamil #M Dr. K. Srinivasan #C ? #P $40 (shareware), $0 for non-profit use #I oak.oakland.edu /pub/msdos/editor/adami91.zip #I wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/msdos/editor/adami91.zip #I nic.switch.ch /mirrors/msdos/editor/adami91.zip #A soc.culture.indian FAQ #O DOS/Windows ## Standalone word processor #D Jul 94. #L Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Marathi, Telugu #M Avinash Chopde #C avinash@acm.org #P $0 #I cs.duke.edu /dist/sources/itrans32.* #I oak.oakland.edu /pub/msdos/tex/itrans32.* #O TeX on Unix/DOS #A sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu ## .zip for DOS, .tar.Z for Unix #D Jul 94. #L Standards, Codes #P GBP 20 + GB 2 P&P (GBP 5 overseas) #C Sesame Computer Projects (John Clews) 8, Avenue Road #C Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 7PG England Phone: +44-423-888432 #O ? #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L Devanagari, Sanskrit, Tamil, Punjabi, Tibetan, #C Linguist's Software Box 580 Edmonds, WA 98020 Phone: 206/775-1130 #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L ? #C "PicaType Ltd." in Pune + Abacus Computers Ltd. of Bombay #C Institute of Typographical Research (ITR), Pune #O Adobe font metrics/Postscript #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L Marathi, Tamil, Assamese, Kashmiri, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Urdu, #L Punjabi, Sankrit, Kannada, Gujarati, Sindhi, Oriya, Malayalam, and Nepali. #M GIST Technology - by Center for Developement of Advanced Computing, Pune #C Mohan Tambe, CDAC, Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind Pune 411 007 INDIA #C tambe@parcom.ernet.in Phone (212)332461, 332483, 332479 Fax (212)337551 #O SCO-XENIX/Any IBM PC compatible running a Unix variant #P $500 #A Jeroen H. ## Hardware card + software included. #D Jul 94. #L Gujarati, Malayalam(?), Bengali, Tamil #P substantial #O Mac, MS-DOS, etc. #C Linotype-Hell (main office) Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire #C GL53 7LR Tel: 0242 222 333 #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L Kannada + others #P $5.00 for catalog (adjusted with purchase) #C Ecological Linguistics #C P.O. Box 15156 Washington, DC 20003 Phone : 202 546-5826 #A kumar@duck.ncsc.org (Ashwini Kumar [Gupta]) #D Jul 94. #L Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, etc. #P ? #C H&M Enterprises 8304 N.W. 113 Terrace #C Oklahoma City, OK 73162 Phone: 405 728-0634 (voice & fax) #O PC/XT,AT ## Bilingual word processor for IBM PC/XT and AT as well as clones #A kumar@duck.ncsc.org (Ashwini Kumar [Gupta]) #D Jul 94. #L Jaipur, Hindustan, v 4.0 (UBCnagari) #P $10 #C Dr. K.E. Bryant Department of Asian Studies University of British Columbia #C 1871, West Mall Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Canada phone: 604 822-3881 #O Mac #A Jeroen H. ## Postscript type 3, Mac-bitmap, keyboard-bindings #D Jul 94. #L Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi Nepali, etc. #P $0 #I archive.cs.ruu.nl:/ftp/TEX/FONTS/devnag.tar.Z #O TeX, C, METAFONT source #C Frans J. Velthuis Nyensteinheerd 267 9736 TV Groningen The Netherlands #C velthuis@rc.rug.nl #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L Bengali #O Windows #P $0, copyrighted #I use archie, sgaon.zip Sonar Gaon (bitmap) #C K. M. Anisur Rahman #C 722 N. 13th Street, #505 Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 288-2498 ## Truetype fonts for Mac, OS/2, Unix, Windows & NeXT available for $25.00 #D Jul 94. #L Telugu #O Metafont + TeX #I blackbox.hacc.washington.edu: pub/tex/telugu (temporary) #C Lakshmankumar Mukkavilli & Lakshmi Mukkavilli 915 Almaden Avenue #C Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA email: lzk60@css.amdahl.com #A haccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway) #D Jul 94. #L Tamil #O itrans (source in this post) or C + TeX with included preprocessor #P $0 #I ymir.claremont.edu:[TEX.BABEL.TAMIL]*.* #C Humanities and Arts Computing Center of the U. of Washington, USA. #C ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu #A Jeroen H. #D Jul 94. #L Tamil #M Metafont Author: Thomas Ridgeway, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. #M BDF Maintainer: Gnanasekaran Swaminathan #C Gnanasekaran Swaminathan #I ftp.stolaf.edu: pub/tamil/libtamil-1.2.tar.gz #I wuarchive.wustl.edu: doc/misc/tamil/libtamil-1.2.tar.gz #O X11R5 X windows platforms #O PostScript printers for tamil-lpr #A gs4t@virginia.edu #D Jul 94. #L Tamil (postscript type1/truetype) #M K. Kalyanasundaram (author) #C Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland #C For a copy of the font send request (specifying type): kalyan@icphp1.epfl.ch #P $0 #O Postscript type 1 (for Macintosh); Truetype (for Windows) #A kalyan@icphp1.epfl.ch #D Jul 94. #L Sanskrit #M Data-Cal #C - #P $199.95 #I 602-545-1234 #I #O Windows True-type #A Krishna Prasad kprasad@attmail.com #D Jul 94. #L Gujarati, Hindi/Sanskrit #M Linguistic Software #C 206-775-1130 #P $99.95 #I #O Windows True-type #A Krishna Prasad kprasad@attmail.com #D Jul 94. #L ? #M 800-83-FONTS #C ? #P ? #I ? #O Adobe Type Manager #A Krishna Prasad kprasad@attmail.com #D Jul 94. #L Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Utkal, Punjabi, Sankrit, #L Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam. #C Mr. Shrikrishna Patil,21647 Rainbow Drive,Cupertino, CA 95014-4826 #C Fax: +1 (408) 255 6443 Voice: +1 (408) 446 9144 #P US$73 for initial package, single fonts around US$40 #O Mac System 7.x or MS-Windows 3.x PostScript Type 1 or TrueType #A Avinash Chopde avinash@acm.org #D Jul 94. #L Tamil - Ananku Helv (TrueType) #C Periannan Kuppusamy #C SOFTECH CREATIONS, (Dr.Kuppusamy. Phone: +1-410-515-3611) #P $15 ($2 S&H) #O Windows or Mac Truetype/Adobe Type 1 ## Software - PC Kalvi set 1 (akaram,alpaha-bets,drops) $10+$10+$10 = $30 ## PC Kalvi set 2 (consonants,numbers,triplets) $10+$10+$30 = $50 #A kkumar@crl.com (Kumar Kumarappan) #D Jul 94. #L Devanagari & Others #C Mike Meir Gate Seven Computers Ltd 6A Gwendwr Road London W14 9BG UK #C Tel/Fax +44 (0)71-602 5186 #P $$ #O Windows #A Ian@daleroad.demon.co.uk (Ian Dempsey) #D Jul 94. #L Devanagari & Others #C Lingua Language Services 63B Woodhead Road Holmfirth Huddersfield HD1 1PR UK #C Tel +44 (0)484 686396 Fax +44 (0)484 687320 #P $$ #O Windows #A Ian@daleroad.demon.co.uk (Ian Dempsey) #D Jul 94. #L Gurmukhi(punjabi) #O Mac and Windows (True type) #C Daljit Singh, IGS House, 1703 Hacienda Blvd. La Habra Heights, CA 90631 #C (310) 690-0117 fax: (724) 779-1227 #P $21 #A Jasmeet Judge #D Jul 94. #L HINDI (PLAY AND LEARN HINDI PART I) - Software #M Ramesh.Kushwaha@um.cc.umich.edu #C MEDCOM, 3757 Helen AVe., Ypsilanti, MI 48197,Phone./Fax(313)434-1970 #P FREE ($5 to cover the cost of disk, postage, Plastic Overlay) #O IBM PC/DOS needs VGA monitor, no sound board needed #A Prof. N.L. Sharma, at EMU and many others. ## Teaches Hindi alphabets with picture & sound. Very simple even for kids (3+). #D Aug 5, 94. #L HINDI (PLAY AND HINDI PART II) - Software #M Ramesh.Kushwaha@um.cc.umich.edu #C MEDCOM, 3757 Helen Ave., Ypsilanti, MI 48197, Phone/Fax(313)434-1970 #P $15 #O IBM PC/DOS, needs VGA Monitor, no sound board needed #A Prof. N. L. Sharma at EMU and Many others. ## Teaches Hindi words and Sentences interactivelly with colored images/sound. #D Aug 5, 94. #L Hindi font #M Ramesh.Kushwaha@um.cc.umich.edu #C MEDCOM, 3757 Helen, Ave., Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA,Phone/FAX(313)434-1970 #P $25 #I - #O True Type, Type 1, Type3 or bitmap(only 1 size) for IBM/Mac/DOS/Windows #A Dr. N.L. Sharma and Many others #D Aug 5, 94. #L Hindi, Gujrati, Bengali and others #M Intellectual Property Solutions #C Info@inpros.com #C InPros Box 57-2141 Houston TX 77024-2141 #P $15+ for a set of three basic fonts #O PC (windows 3.1), MAC (system 7.0 or later), Unix #A info@inpros.com #D Aug 21, 94. --- copyright notice --- Copyright (C) 1994 Sridhar Venkataraman. Reproduction of this posting without permission is permissible only for non-commercial purposes as long as it is reproduced in full and carries this copyright notice.