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Introduction - RaghuTamil

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).

RaghuTamil  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 Tamil script for Tamil language.

RaghuTamil  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 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 RaghuTamil font the sufficient number  of  glyphs  have  been  provided.  The
designed  letterforms  of RaghuTamil font in Tamil script, have less contrast in
thick & thin strokes and are  added  with  characteristic  serifs  on  sides  of
vertical  and  horizontal  lines.  This  font  generally  takes  care of written
syllables for Tamil language text using Tamil script.


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

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


Copyright

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

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


Usage

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


DISCLAIMER

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