Introduction: ------------- Likhan is an Unicode Opentype font for Bengali. It has glyphs for english characters as well, but using it for that is probably not a good idea. More details about the font, especially regarding the origins, are (currently) available through http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali The actual font, along with Pfaedit sources should be available, among other places, from http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Likhan/ It is possible that the versions put up there will be more recent. Several other Bengali Opentype fonts, most designed by better typographers than me, are available from the Free Bangla Fonts project (http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/). Copyright: --------- The Latin glyphs here have been stolen from the GNU Free Fonts project (http://www.nongnu.org/freefont) and are copylefted by the Free Softare Foundation (http://www.fsf.org). The other glyphs are designed from scratch by me and are hence copylefted by me :) Usage: ------ Using such a font as this to its full potential requires a text layout system capable of recognizing unicode (which most modern software does well enough) and reordering and combining characters according to instructions laid out in the unicode specification and the open type layout tables in the font. Sufficiently recent versions of Microsoft Windows can do this using the Uniscribe layout engine; in GNU/Linux, the Pango project is catching up (latest versions needed), and Yudit is another choice. Bugs: ----- This version of Likhan is based on the Template Font we have been working on (see the FBF site/mailing list archives). We would appreciate reports of any bugs to our lists. Modification and Redistribution: -------------------------------- Likhan is released under the GNU GPL (see the COPYING file), and you are free to modify and distribute Likhan under its terms. Last modified: 2003-05-12
