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Introduction - RaghuHindi

C-DAC Mumbai presents "Raghu"- a series of OpenType fonts in 9 Indic scripts for
12 Indian languages. These fonts named as RaghuHindi, RaghuTamil etc.  have been
designed,  developed and realised through the efforts of the following people of
C-DAC Mumbai who worked for project IndiX, funded by TDIL Programme,  Department
of   Information   Technology,   Ministry   of  Communications  and  Information
Technology, Govt. of India.

Font Design Team:

Prof. R. K. Joshi, Vinay Saynekar, Rajith Kumar  K.  M.,  Omkar  Shende,  Sarang
Kulkarni,  Amresh  Mondkar,  Jui  Mhatre,  Supriya  Kharkar, Kruti Dalvi, Nirmal
Biswas, Seema Mangaonkar, Riddhi Joshi, Lokesh Karekar.

Technical Team:

Dr. Alka Irani, Vinod Kumar, Sandeep Rao, D.S. Dixit, Ajit Joshi, Keyur  Shroff.

Language Co-ordination Team:

Gracy Abreo, Rekha Sharma, Rekha Nair, Menaka Arumugam.

Technical Support:

ITSS (IT Systems and Solutions), Jitendra Mandalia (Graphics).

RaghuHindi  is a digital font, in OpenType Format using Unicode standards and is
based on visual syllable standard of IndiX Compugraphy, for  creating,  editing,
viewing and printing text in Devanagari script for Hindi language.

RaghuHindi  font Original Version 1.00 (2005) has been designed and developed by
Prof. R. K. Joshi (TypeFont Design Director, Visiting Design Specialist at C-DAC
Mumbai),  assisted by Ms. Jui Mhatre, Ms. Supriya Kharkar and Ms. Kruti Dalvi at
C-DAC Mumbai under IndiX2, Project  funded  by  TDIL  Programme,  Department  of
Information  Technology,  Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
Govt. of India.

In RaghuHindi font the sufficient number  of  glyphs  have  been  provided.  The
designed  letterforms  of  RaghuHindi  font  in  Devanagari script, are based on
traditional writing with reed  pen  creating  combinations  of  thick  and  thin
strokes.  This font generally takes care of written syllables for Hindi language
text using Devanagari script.

The actual font is available, among other places, from:

http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix

Copyright

RaghuHindi font Original Version  1.00  (2005)  by  Centre  for  Development  of
Advanced Computing, Mumbai.

RaghuHindi  font  Original  Version  1.00 (2005) has been released under GNU GPL
Version 2.


Usage

Using RaghuHindi font to its full  potential,  requires  a  text  layout  system
capable  of  recognizing  Unicode  standard  and reordering as well as combining
characters according to the visual syllable standard of IndiX Compugraphy. Refer
to  the  standard  available  on website http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix
RaghuHindi is to  be  used  for  continuous  text  in  Hindi  language.  And  is
recommended  to  be  used  in  minimum  18 pt. size on screen and 12 pt. size on
paper.

For texts in other Indian languages using Devanagari script  (such  as  Marathi,
Sanskrit,  Nepali  etc.),  the  usage  of RaghuHindi font may not meet the exact
linguistic, orthographic, and/or typographic needs of these other languages.


DISCLAIMER

RAGHUHINDI FONT ORIGINAL VERSION 1.00 (2005) HAS BEEN  RELEASED  UNDER  GNU  GPL
VERSION  2, FOR ITS USAGE, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK AND
THE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USAGE OF RAGHUHINDI FONT, IN PARTS OR IN FULL, AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF RAGHUHINDI FONT LIES WITH THE USER. SHOULD THE
FONT PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT IN INSTALLATION, OPERATION OR OTHERWISE, THE
USER  ASSUMES  ALL  RESPONSIBILITIES  FOR  THE  SAME  AND  BEARS THE COST OF ANY
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION (AND NOT THE FONT DESIGN TEAM  MEMBERS
OR  ANY  OTHER  CONTRIBUTORS  FROM OTHER INDIX TEAMS AT C-DAC, MUMBAI). UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES, MAY FONT DESIGN TEAM AND/OR ANY  OTHER  TEAM  INVOLVED  IN  INDIX
PROJECT  BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, LOST DATA OR ANY
OTHER DAMAGES, EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT, CAUSED BY USING THIS RAGHUHINDI  FONT.