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MAC MALAYALAM RESOURCES

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Download:RachanaMac.ttf
(This is a Mac version of the Rachana OpenType font released by Rachana Akshara Vedi for Windows/Linux. Ifyou are looking for a font to use in Windows/Linux, while theabove should work, you can download the original non-Mac versionfrom here. RachanaMac is released under GNU General Public License, ver. 3 as are all the other software on this page. A local copy of the license file is available here. The Mac version contains no extra glyphs, but makes use of every Malayalam glyph in the original version.)
Installation: The easiest way to install this font is to copy it into ~/Library/Fonts. See this article for a detailed discussion. If you have previously installed a version of Rachana (or another Malayalam font), be sure to delete it and do a reboot before installing this version. You can test your installation by visiting this test page.
Alpha version: Please email us if you notice any issues (other than the ones mentioned below).

Known issues:
Browsers: Apple's Safari does not render the Unicode pre-5.1 coded (non-atomic) chillaksharangal properly. However, Firefox 3.x renders everything correctly. We recommend using Firefox for viewing Malayalam websites. (You might want to install the Padma plug-in for Firefox, to read some Malayalam newspapers without installing additional fonts.) The font doesn't work in Firefox 2; since Firefox 3 is available only for Mac OS X 10.4 and later, in earlier versions of OS X, Safari is recommended (tested only on Mac OS X 10.3.9).
Editors: OpenOffice.org (Aqua) and Pages (iWork09) work perfectly. Make sure you select Rachana font and not the default font; thanks to Tom Gewecke for the tip. (When the correct font is not chosen, they both have the same issue as Safari, with rendering old style chillaksharangal.) TextEdit seems to have stability issues when rendering Malayalam. NeoOffice renders the text around ഠൊ (o), ഠോ (O) and ഠൌ (non-standard au) signs wrongly. MacVim has multiple issues (ഠൊ (o), ഠോ (O) and ഠൌ (non-standard au) signs, character width, old style chillaksharam etc.).

For developers: If you are interested in adding an AAT table to your Malayalam OpenType font, you may want to look at the morph input file (mif) we used. More information and tools for developing fonts for Macs are available from Apple. We also found FontForge (a free font editor) useful. Do make sure that you have the necessary permission to modify a font before working on it.

Keyboard and input methods

Downloads:Malayalam.keylayout and Malayalam.icns (optional icon file)

Installation: Copy the file(s) to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts(more details). Reboot (for good measure). Navigate to System Preference -> International (Language & Text in Snow Leopard) -> Input Sources and put a check mark against Malayalam.
Usage instructions: To engage the Malayalam keyboard, pull down the input method menu (typically located at the top right-hand side; look for a US flag if you are using a US keyboard) and check Malayalam. Also check the Show Keyboard Viewer if you want to see the key layout. Note that you need to use the shift key for some of the characters (press the shift key and observe the keyboard viewer), alt-key and alt+shift give you Roman characters.
Special instruction: If you want an explicit chandrakkala, hit the chandrakkala button twice. You might want to use this in certain instances like ഓഫ്‌ലൈൻ (offline) where we want an explicit chandrakkala as opposed to ഓഫ്ലൈൻ.
Caveat: The keyboard is in Inscript format with modifications proposed by an experts committee. (In fact, this is exactly the same keyboard as here, except for a revamped icon and a proper GPL notice.) The Inscript key layout may have evolved independent of these proposed modifications, but we do not plan to support this standard at the moment. The text produced by this keyboard does conform to Unicode 5.1 specifications (current as of September 2009).
Other input methods: We very highly recommend varamozhi, a stand-alone transliteration program and the following web-based transliteration tools: മലയാളം ഓൺലൈൻ and varamozhi online both of which use the same basic transliteration scheme as varamozhi, but without some of the smarts.
Update: A more recent option is to use KeyMagic. See here for more details.

Acknowledgments

Rachana Akshara Vedi (Chitrajakumar R, Hussain KH, Rajeev Sebastian, Gangadharan N, Vijayakumaran Nair, Subash Kuraiakose) for their beautiful Rachana font. Cibu Johny for varamozhi and Raj Neettiyath (a.k.a Peringodan) for മലയാളം ഓൺലൈൻ.The free software listed below, for being free and awesome. And Changampuzha for the lovely poetry.

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FontForge is a UNIX application, so it doesn’t behave 100% like a normal Mac Application.OS X 10.12 or later is required.

Download and install FontForge 2020-03-14

1. Install XQuartz

Without XQuartz, FontForge will open a Dock icon but not load any further.

Open Finder and look in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder for the XQuartz app.

If you don’t have it then download and install: direct link to XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg

Log out and log back in to ensure it works correctly

Just this first time, start XQuartz from Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app, go to the X11 menu, Preferences, Input, and turn off the Enable keyboard shortcuts under X11 or Enable key equivalents under X11 preference item. FontForge will start XQuartz automatically for you next time.

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2. Install FontForge

For users of OS X 10.10 and later, download and install FontForge 2017-07-31

For users of OS X 10.09, download and install FontForge 2015-04-30

Open it and move the FontForge.app file to /Applications - do not move it anywhere else

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Right Click (or hold the Command key and click once) and choose Open from the menu, and confirm you want to open the app

You may see a dialog box saying “Choose Application. Where is X11?” with a sort of Finder window. Find XQuartz in Applications/Utilities and click OK

Be patient while it runs a first-time setup process

FontForge will create a new font and show you its glyphs in a table:

Next time, it will open fast and in any typical way: double clicking it, drag it to the dock, using Launcher, Spotlight or Quicksilver…

Tips

When you run FontForge, its dock icon will disappear after it is launched, because it is controlled by XQuartz.

To bring fontforge’s windows to the font, click the XQuartz icon, or use Alt+Tab to switch to it.

Problems?

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You can also install Development Snapshots, install using Package Managers or build from source

New development versions are created whenever changes are made, and the latest is always available from http://dl.bintray.com/fontforge/fontforge/.

To install an update:

  1. Drag and drop the new FontForge.app into /Applications and replace it
  2. Start FontForge again

Installing from Package Managers

These Mac package managers all have FontForge:

  • Homebrew (command-line only)

Building from source

Build with source using Homebrew:

Advanced Configuration

To make FontForge more pleasant to use, you can change some aspects of the way it works on Macs. These steps are optional.

If the hotkeys are unfamiliar, you can change them!

  1. quit FontForge (and X11, for versions prior to 2019-03-17)
  2. with your text editor, open /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/Resources/opt/local/share/fontforge/hotkeys/default
  3. change the hotkeys and save the file
  4. start FontForge again

If the UI appears very big or very small, you can change the way the UI is sized.

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  1. quit FontForge (and X11, for versions prior to 2019-03-17)
  2. with your text editor, open /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/Resources/opt/local/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
  3. measure the physical width of your screen in centimeters. In this example, it is 34cm wide.
  4. add a new line, Gdraw.ScreenWidthCentimeters: 34 and save the file
  5. start FontForge again
  6. if the scaling is still not right, play with the value until it is

FontForge is designed to make use of a three button mouse. It is also designed to make use of modifier keys on mouse clicks (eg, Control-left-click can mean something different than left-click.)

If you have a standard one button mouse, then you have the option of having the Mac simulate a three button mouse (for instance Option-left-click behaves like clicking the middle mouse button). Unfortunately this means you can no longer use the Option key to change the behavior of the left (only) button click. To enable this, click the XQuartz app in the Dock, and then go to X11 menu in the top left, Preferences, Input, and turn on Emulate three button mouse

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If you have a two or three button mouse, then use it (and turn off Emulate three button mouse in the X11 preferences.)

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