[ubuntu-in] Require Hindi TTF font that is incript layout based

[Onkar Shinde]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Ramnarayan. K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gora,
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:31:35 +0530
>> Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> am searching for a hindi ttf font that is inscript layout based.
>>>
>>> The reason i need it is to pass it to people who have wincedows and
>>> want to learn inscript typing.
>> [...]
>>
>> You are confusing issues here. Modern Indian language fonts
>> are Unicode-encoded, and use OpenType rules to aid rendering.
>> Inscript defines a keyboard input method which specifies what
>> Inidan-language characters are output upon pressing keys on
>> a normal English keyboard. The two have nothing to do with
>> each other.
>
> Thats what i was trying to work around - the need to setup some system
> to setup inputting in hindi
>
> with say the kruti dev fonts .ttf wallah you install select the font
> and begin typing based on the hindi typrewriter.
>
> Its just for ease of use (fore newbies) that i was searching for
> inscript ttf fonts

There are Hindia fonts installed by default in Ubuntu. It is called
Lohit. For setting up Hindi input system - refer to
http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/IndicLangWithScim


Onkar