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Voor India vinden we drie PostScript Devanagari fonts: Milan, Nutan en Padma. Geen verdere beschrijvingen. Voor Zuid-India en de Dravidische talen geeft Malafont twee Malayalam fonts in zowel pfb als ttf formaat: het nogal hoekige Gayathri en het ronde Janaranjani. Palladam geeft een gelijknamige pfb-file voor de Tamil-taal. Het Tamil font is ontworpen door T. Govindaraj op een Macintosh met Fontographer. |
Background and a brief history I (T. Govindaraj) wrote this font over a period of about a year. It has been modified almost continuously. Since I could not find a commercially available font that I liked, I decided to create one. It took a rather long time since my professorial responsibilities in the top industrial and systems engineering program in the US left me with little spare time. |
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While there is always room for improvement, I decided to release the font at this time (July 1990) since it appears usable at the current state of its development. The font is named after the little town where I come from. I am actually from a 'suburb' of Palladam. Since my background is engineering and not linguistics or Tamil literature, I had to use letter mappings that seemed reasonable. I am open to suggestions concerning mappings that may be more appropriate. |
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