How to use Devanagari fonts in Yudit

By Sanjay Khatri <sanjay@webveda.com>
Date 3 Feb-2000.


Introduction

Yudit<www.yudit.org> is a free Unicode Editor, it can be used for editing text in Indian langauges in Unicode. Devnag fonts are modified public_domain dev fonts by Sandeep Sibal <sibal@att.com>. Inscript Keyboard layout is a keyboard layout for all Indian languages  standardised by Ministry of Information Technologies <www.tdil.gov.in>. Dev-Phonetic.kmap uses phonetic mapping. Suggestions and corrections are welcome.


Pre-requites
1. Download yudit-2.2 from www.yudit.org
2. Download kmap file: indic.kmap.gz  
3. Download font file: devnag.fontz.gz

Installation:
1. Install yudit: If you have downloaded binary rpm's then type: 

rpm -Uvh yudit.rpm.filename.rpm 

Tarballs can be installed by executing following commands:

./configure
make
make install

By default yudit executable is installed in /usr/bin/ directory  while other files are in /usr/share/yudit.

2. Copy devnag.fonts.gz  in /usr/share/yudit/fonts directory. Untar it and install the devnag font:

tar zxvf devnag.fonts.gz
mkfontdir
xset fp+ /usr/share/yudit/fonts
xset fp rehash

3. Add fontpath /usr/share/yudit/fonts  in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file(in RedHat7.0 using X11 ver 4.0 or /etc/X11/X86Config in X11-3.5). This will make devang fonts available every time the system powered on.

4. Copy indic.kmap.gz and extract it /usr/share/yudit/data directory by typing

tar zxvf indic.kmap.gz

convert .kmap files into .my by using mytool (it comes with yudit) :

mytool -type kmap -kmap Dev-Inscript.kmap rkmap Dev-Inscript.kmap -write Dev-Inscript.my

5. Copy yudit.properies.dev into  /usr/share/yudit/config/ directory  and rename it  to yudit.properties  to use devnag fonts and indic kmap:

yudit.editor.fonts=default,Truetype,Bitmap,Devnag
yudit.editor.input=straight,unicode,Dev-Phonetic,Dev-Inscript
yudit.editor.fontsizes=14,18,24
yudit.fonts=default,Truetype,Bitmap,Devnag

yudit.fonts.Devnag=-sibal-devnag-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-10646-1

Now  use start using yudit with devnag fonts. Cheers :-).

