The Tamil Software Page

• Tamil Fonts and Text Processing Tools
• Tamil Educational Software

Tamil Fonts and Text Processing Tools

Installing Tamil fonts and editing tools on your computer is quite easy and there is a variety of software readily available. And the best part is that most of these are available free of charge. Whatever you try, good luck!

• Tools with a World-Wide Web Interface

  Some of the Tamil writing/editing tools have a web interface through which you may use them remotely without having to installing them at your site.
  • Avinash Chopde's ITRANS package now has a Web Interface.

• Multi-Platform Tools

  • Indian Language Interface Library developed at IIT, Madras.

• MS Windows

  
  • ADHAWIN by Dr. K. Srinivasan. A Microsoft Windows based transliterator program to convert Romainzed Tamil Text to Windows based Tamil True Type Font.
  • GIST Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology from C-DAC, India.
  • Mylai TrueType font created by Dr. Kalyanasundaram.
  • Nalinam by Sivagurunathan Chinniah. Tamil language software for PCs. This package consists of a word processor and a font editor.
  • Murasu is a Windows-based software that enables you to type, display, and print Tamil text.
  • Nathan's Tamil TrueType fonts.

• X Windows/UNIX

  
  • GIST Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology from C-DAC, India.
  • libtamil 1.5 is the latest version of an X Window font system. With this package, you can read and post to soc.culture.tamil in Tamil script, as well as see and print documents in Tamil script. Have your compiler handy! If you have a Sun, maybe this tar file will work for you.
  • Madurai provides a way to display Tamil using ASCII characters.
  • ITRANS by Avinash Chopde. A TeX translation package that uses Washington University's wntml fonts.

• Macintosh

  
  • GIST Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology from C-DAC, India.
  • Palladam by Dr. Govindaraj.
  • Indian fonts by Prof. Hart.
  • Mylai TrueType font created by Dr. Kalyanasundaram.