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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: METAFONT/TeX for Indian scripts
Keywords: METAFONT, TeX, Deva Nagari, Tamil
Message-ID: <1141@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 88 17:24:22 GMT
Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark, OH 43055
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I came across the following reference in Knuth's `Computer Modern Typefaces'
[vol E of the set `Computers and Typesetting']:
   Gosh, P. K., `An approach to type design and text composition in Indian
   scripts', Stanford University Computer science dept tech. report #965
   April, 1983.

This raises a number of questions that I would appreciate answered:
1.  Have there been more articles in this area? How can I get a good
bibliography?

2.  Is this a `proof of concept' article or a report of a complete
implementation?

3.  I suspect that this may make use of the `charext' parameter of METAFONT.
Are there TeX/device drivers that pay attention to this? [standard TeX doesn't]

Thanks for your help.
-Nath



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