The following is a sample tamil text prepared using the Mylai tamil font:
MYLAI TAMIL FONT
INTRODUCTION
| During the past five years I have been heavily involved with fellow Cyber-community
Tamilians towards development of a STANDARD FONT ENCODING SCHEME FOR USE IN
ALL INFORMATION INTERCHANGE THROUGH INTERNET. At the last TAMIL INTERNET
2001 conference held in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, bilingual encoding schemes TSCII and TAB have been recommended as preferred schemes for use in the Internet. Several Tamil Text Editors based on these TSCII and TAB encodings are now available free on the Net and majority of them have implemented Text input as per Mylai Keyboard Layout . Hence we strongly encourage all Tamil users to shift to TSCII and TAB encodings for all information interchanges through Internet. Text convertors are also available for conversion of Mylai based Tamil texts to these TSCII, TAB encodings. In view of the presence of glyphs corresponding to old -style Tamil characters (e.g, old style Raa, Naa, naa, lai, ...), we continue to distribute Mylai font for these special need cases. |
FEATURES OF MYLAI TAMIL FONT
1. Mylai Tamil font and its keymapping are copyright protected and their ownership rests with Dr. Kalyanasundaram. Any use of the font for purposes other than those listed in this page is illegal.
2. The font is for the personal use of individuals and non-profit organizations only. Any use of the font for profit or by commercial organizations should have the prior written approval of the author and developer, Dr. Kalyanasundaram.
3. Distribution of the font to individuals by third parties should include a text
version of this page suitably modified (e.g a file entitled Readme in plain text in
the font package bundle) along with the font file(s).
4. Commercial organizations (computer firms) and individual software developers
are encouraged to distribute the font along with the computer hardware and develop
softwares that use Mylai tamil font. But they should get prior written approval
from Dr. Kalyanasundaram before such distribution or selling of the software packages
incorporating Mylai font.
5. Disclaimer:
The font was created by the author (Dr. Kalyanasundaram) after an investment of
substantial personal time and resources and is distributed to others purely as a
service and on a private basis. Neither Dr. Kalyanasundaram nor his present
employer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) nor those distributing the font
through internet Web pages give any warranty for any damages caused upon usage of
these fonts.
The font is distributed as three individual files bundled in a self-executing mylai.exe file:
Use WinZip or other utilities to "unzip" the archive file to get the contents: mylai.ttf font, README and keymap doc files. If you have obtained a
copy of the font file from other web sites, follow the procedure outlined below.
Use the Fonts utility found in the Control Panel of the Program Manager (Windows 3.1),
or the Control Panel of the Settings menu (Windows 95) and add Mylai font to the
font directory (folder)of Windows.
Mylai font should be properly installed before you open or read/print the
keymap.doc file. Otherwise, the Tamil texts in the keymap file will not be
displayed in Tamil.
If you find any difficulty in installing Mylai font on a PC, please let
me know or to Prof. T.R. Chari .
DISTRIBUTION OF THE POSTSCRIPT TYPE 1 FONT FOR MACINTOSH
Mylai font should be properly installed before you open or read/print the keymap
info file. Otherwise, the Tamil texts in the keymap file will not be displayed properly.
If you find any difficulty in installing Mylai font on a Macintosh, please
contact
me.
MYLAI KEYBOARD INPUT METHOD AVAILABLE IN OTHER TEXT EDITORS
For this purpose, Mylai keymap has been slightly revised taking into account the frequency of occurrence of various Tamil alphabets in a typical text. The revised keymap is available as a compact image file . Users of these softwares are strongly encouraged to use this Mylai keyboard input method.
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