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Monospaced Fonts for CTL Scripts (e.g. Devanagari, Tamil)
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Monospaced Bengali Font #12

Open mitradranirban opened 3 weeks ago

mitradranirban commented 3 weeks ago

If you want to have a look on how monospaced Bengali Font looks, you can try MitraMono, a font I made way back in 2002 to display plain text files in IE6. It is available from https://github.com/mitradranirban/fonts-fbf-beng and also part of fonts-beng-extra package in Debian/ Ubuntu

o-sdn-o commented 3 weeks ago

Thank you for sharing this! I am very interested to see how monospaced glyphs of such complex scripts are implemented. Thank you.

o-sdn-o commented 3 weeks ago

I have now come up with a new approach that may make it possible to fully use proportional fonts of complex scripts in a terminal environment. I have tested this under Windows, and am now doing it for X11. Perhaps I have not taken something into account, and this will not work and monospaced fonts will have to be used. I am still at the stage of research. But for now it looks promising.

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By splitting large glyphs of complex grapheme clusters into pieces, it is possible to compose runs of text using proportional fonts inside a terminal monospaced text environment. As well as displaying glyphs of arbitrary size, as shown in the screenshot above.

mitradranirban commented 3 weeks ago

In fact the font was developed back in 2002 as xterm in GNU/Linux and Internet Explorer in windows mandatorily needed monospaced font to show Bengali plain text. You can have an idea how it looks here https://fonts.atipra.in/img/MitraMono.png I am presently in the process of developing a monospaced Devanagari font.