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Introduction - RaghuMalayalam

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).

RaghuMalayalam 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 Malayalam script for Malayalam language.

RaghuMalayalam 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)  in  association  with  Mr. Rajith Kumar K. M. (TypeFont Designer),
assisted by Mr. Nirmal Biswas, Ms. Jui Mhatre and Ms. Supriya Kharkar  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  RaghuMalayalam font the sufficient number of glyphs have been provided.  The
designed letterforms of RaghuMalayalam font in Malayalam  script,  have  elegant
structures  of  thick  and  thin  strokes.  Vertical  strokes  contain  a slight
curvature and scooped ends. This font generally takes care of written  syllables
for Malayalam language text using Malayalam script.


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

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


Copyright

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

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


Usage

Using  RaghuMalayalam  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.   RaghuMalayalam   is   to  be used for
continuous text in Malayalm language. And is recommended to be used  in  minimum
14pt. size on screen and 10pt. size on  paper.


DISCLAIMER

RAGHUMALAYALAM 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 RAGHUMALAYALAM FONT, IN PARTS OR IN
FULL, AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF RAGHUMALAYALAM  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
RAGHUMALAYALAM FONT.