How to use Tibetan fonts and keyboard map in Yudit

Original: Gregory Mokhin <mokhin@bog.msu.ru> 2002-10-10 
Modified: 


Before you proceed: Tibetan support in Yudit is at initial 
stage now and is helpful for testing purposes mainly. 
You can type Tibetan using Wylie transliteration and you 
will have proper conversion to Unicode symbols as you type. 
In many cases you will have also proper display of Tibetan 
glyphs. But you can also see something unexpected.


Introduction

Yudit<www.yudit.org> is a free Unicode Editor, it can be used for 
editing text in Indic scripts in Unicode.  UTibetan font is 
public_domain fonts by Gregory Mokhin <mokhin@bog.msu.ru>, base on glyph
outlines of old LTibetan.ttf font by Pierre Robillard, who had put this
font into public domain. (I don't have any written proof for that, 
but I'd like to. If anyone knows how to contact Pierre, please let me know).


Pre-requites

1. Download yudit-2.6.4 or later from www.yudit.org
   Follow installation instructions from http://www.yudit.org.
2. Download utibetan.ttf font from 

     http://wwww.yudit.org/download/fonts 

   and copy it into the /usr/share/yudit/fonts or ~/.yudit/fonts

   Note that utibetan.ttf is a preliminary version of the font. It 
   contains glyphs for basic Unicode points for Tibetan and has not
   any OpenType features that will be necessary for proper Tibetan 
   support. These features are under development.
 

Configuration

After installing Yudit and the fonts you need to configure the
fonts to be able to use them. First invoke and exit Yudit. This
will create a ~/.yudit/yudit.properties file. 

Edit a font property in this file, to add Tibetan font, for instance:

yudit.font.TrueType=arial.ttf,utibetan.ttf...

Select Tibetan for input in Yudit gui.  This is a clustering kmap - 
which means that a whole cluster needs to be entered to get proper shaping. 


Typing Tibetan

Use Wylie transliteration to type Tibetan, for example, try typing

      ye shes mig gcig dri ma med 

to see what manifests.


Please send your comments to Yudit developers and me.

Grisha, <mokhin@bog.msu.ru>
Moscow,
10 October 2002
