Re: Minutes of ILUGC meet - 19th August 2000

[M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Suraj.co.in wrote:
> Computer Center. Mr. M.K.S. brought his PIII and a C-DAC Gist Terminal
> for his
> Tamil on Linux Demo. He had Mr. Kumara Shanu and Mr. Bhaskaran by his


Mr. Kumara shanmugam & Mr. Baskaran



> He first showed a few features of the CDAC GIST Terminal. The 17 Language

It's actually 22 (twenty two).  
Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Druk, European, Gujarathi, Kannada,
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kashmiri, Oriya, Punjabi, persian, russian,
sinhalese, sritamil, sindhi, tibetian, thai, urdu


> project. AKARAM text editor,developed by Chinnaswami Nagoo, a team in
> Singapore, India, was shown. This editor uses simple, easy to guess


His name is "Nagarajan Chinnasamy"


> key-combinations to produce tamil characters. The F10 toggle can be
> used to switch between English and Tamil. A small latex poem was typed


BTW, it is F11 key.



> the Akaram editor. This was compiled to a .ps and shown using gv. The
> o/p was excellent. He mentioned about the Tamil TCSII Font package
> developed in the US.


That tamil font is called "Washington Tamil Font" created by the
Humanities & Arts Computing Center of the University of Washington,
USA.  For more detail about that:

http://www.aczone.com/itrans/tamil/node3.html




> had a mind blowing Tamil eqv for the dates. This tarball can be
> downloaded from:
>   http://tamil.htmlplanet.com


In the above URL you can download AkaramTeX editor.  The URL for
console-tamil is:  http://www.egroups.com/files/tamilinux



> The Anusaraka project was also discussed. Anusaraka is nothing but a
> Language Translation (and also transliteration) program that was
> actually aimed at Tamil <-> English, but ended up translating from
> Tamil <-> Hindi.


Anusaaraka theme is "Indian Lang. to Indian Lang. translation".  What you
have mentioned above is our(aukbc centre) AIM.




> into different parts called "morphenes". These morphenes are the
> simplest units which can be referred into the dictionaries. There was
> a lot of

It is "morphemes".  



Wow!  Your minutes are really amazing taking all the points discussed in
the meeting. 

** mks **



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