Lohit Fonts Project

1) Generating .ttf file from source
   Example
   $tar -xvf lohit-hindi-2.4.3.tar.gz
   $cd lohit-hindi-2.4.3
   $make

2) Installing font (.ttf) file
   You can then install .ttf font files by copying them to ~/.fonts directory.
   Then execute fc-cache command and then relogin to use that font.


Lohit Project Information :-
See https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/ for more details.

Mailing list:-
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lohit-devel-list


NOTE: This font file was modified from the original source by the Android
and i18n teams, to remove improperly mapped glyphs. We are in the process
of getting these changes merged with the upstream source.

Lohit Fonts Project

Scripts Usage:-
Lohit CVS is now included with 2 shell scripts
1)generate.sh
  Once you checkout the .sfd files from lohit CVS, you just need to execute this script
  and you will get all .ttf files in respective language directory. You can then install those font files
  by copying them to ~/.fonts directory. Then execute fc-cache command and then relogin to use that font.

2)makedist.sh
  Use this script to generate upstream tarball used by fonts-indic SPEC to build rpms.
  e.g.
   To generate lohit-lang-$version.tar.gz follow steps as
   1) Anonymous CVS access
       $ svn co http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/lohit
   1) cd lohit
   2) sh makedist.sh
    You will get upstream tarball used to build lohit-fonts-$version-1 rpm.
  NOTE:- This script can be used only from 2.1.1 and above version of this package.