Tamil True Type Font designed for internet
You may click on these to download them.
Features
- Font layout designed specially for internet usage.
- This is the first Tamil font (and any Indian language font), which
permits texts to be used AS IS in a HTML document and e-mails.
- No characters above 126. No need to use 6 to 8 bytes to send one byte.
The HTML reserved punctuation marks are not used.
- The html document size will be much smaller than with other fonts.
- Variations from the popular Mylai keyboard layout are minimal.
- New character for ar, (neer mOr, oor) is added. The dot is now nicely centered.
- Commonly used punctuation marks are now added and are in standard ASCII positions.
- The font size is a mere 27K bytes.
- You can prepare the document in Readable Romanized Tamil
(Adami style), Mylai, CDAC, Typewriter keyboard format etc.
Then use ADHAWIN.EXE format converter to create the HTML valai text.
- This is released free as a service to the Tamil literate community.
Differences from Mylai layout.
- Old style Raa and the @sa are removed.
- choo is obtained by chu + choo-suffix.
- NYa is obtained by e + choo-suffix.
- nu (as in nugar) is obtained by aa-suffix + n1u-suffix.
- nu as in avanukku is obtained by ai-suffix + n2u-suffix.
- lu is obtained by la + n2u-suffix.
- NYu is obtained by e + n1u-suffix.
- aa is obtained by a + poo-suffix.
- Positions of sri, e, E, pr-oldai, ee, i, pu-suffix, poo-suffix have changed.
- All other characters are at the same positions.
- As before to obtain roo, moo, too, zhoo, Loo you should type the prefix (T key)
first and then the mu key etc.
- As before to obtain pu, poo, vu, voo, zhu, zhoo, NGu, NGoo you should type p etc.
first and then the pu or poo-suffix.
How to prepare a Web page in Tamil
- Download the Valai-sri font for Windows or Mac and install the font.
See your own computer instructions on how to install a Truetype font
- Copy the following lines to any ASCII text editor.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<P>
<BR>If the following lines are not visible in Tamil,
you should get <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7444/valaisri.htm">
valai-sri true type font,</A> which is free and install it.
<FONT FACE = "Valai-sri">
<! Give a Title on the next line>
<TITLE>S ramA{jrf Wybfbiy t[iygfkqf</TITLE>
<P>
<!Add P marks like the one above for each new paragraph>
<P>
<BR>W[f[Mtmf UdfDEk[f WgfEk va ApgfkiqiEy
<BR>et[f[rgfkmf pad vlfl cILpf epRmaqf - epa[f[mf
<BR>ciAl EcL aNtliyL Evqf EcrlL Eka[f - wgfkqf
<BR>KlEckre[[fEb PR
<BR>MnfTbfb enw~fEc! Mybfbi tritfTArtfT
<BR>vnftitfT vayar vazftftiEy - cnft
<BR>MRPRmf EcaAl C~zf emayfpmf epaR[lf
<BR>KRPr[f mab[f EpL PB
</HTML>
</BODY>
- Set the font of the editor to Valai-Sri.
- Modify the Tamil text only, using the keyboard layout shown.
- Save as a .htm or .html file. That is it. It will display in Tamil as shown below.
If the following lines are not visible in Tamil, you should get
valai-sri true type font, which is free and install it.
Give a short title here.
S ramA{jL Wybfbiy cil t[iygfkqf
W[f[Mtmf UdfDEk[f WgfEk va ApgfkiqiEy
et[f[rgfkmf pad vlfl cILpf epRmaqf - epa[f[mf
ciAl EcL aNtliyL Evqf EcrlL Eka[f - wgfkqf
KlEckre[[fEb PR
MnfTbfb enw~fEc! Mybfbi tritfTArtfT
vnftitfT vayar vazftftiEy - cnft
MRPRmf EcaAl C~zf emayfpmf epaR[lf
KRPr[f mab[f EpL PB