Installing Yudit with Telugu fonts:

Here I will show how to use  Yudit as a Telugu editor.
Yudit is a unicode editor which supports many India Languages including Telugu.
Telugu is a language spoken by many in the southern part of INDIA.

What you need.

1. A telugu font (ofcourse) which supports Unicode.
There are a number of Telugu fonts available.
These are the ones I could obtain.

    Pothana2000.ttf --This is the preferred method. Will Display the fonts well in Yudit.
                                 But needs to convert into "bdf" format  to display.  

    SaraswatiNormal.ttf --Even though this doesnt display the fonts very well in yudit, its
                                     advantage is that you need not convert it into "bdf" format
                                     to view on a web browser. 

    abtelugu.ttf  --This is not a unicode font but it does  serve the process.

2. An editor with the proper rendering rules and a proper keymap.
    We will be using Yudit of course.

Font

The one we are going to use is the Pothana2000 font which is available for download and is a True Type font. This font was made by Mr K.Desikachary (http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/). You can download it from this URL http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm. There are many mirrors of the same font. You
may download either of the files listed in that URL, as we only need the TTF file.

Steps to follow to make the font visible to Mozilla.
1. Download Pothana2k.zip
2. Unzip the file and copy Pothana2000.ttf into ./yudit/share/yudit/fonts.
3. Run any of these commands
                 ttmkfdir  ---for  Pothana2000.ttf font
                 mkfontdir  --needed for 'bdf' fonts  --If at all you installed other fonts.
This command will create a "fonts.dir" in the current directory.
If you happen to mkfontdir you will also get a "font.scale" since fonts  of same type but different sizes need to have different ".bdf" files. This is not necessary for a "ttf" font as it is scalable.  

4. Now run these commands
    xset fp+ ./yudit/share/yudit/fonts
    xset fp rehash

done....

Note: This installation will make the font available to applications such as Mozilla and gedit.
Yudit does not make use of this font directly (installation for yudit will be covered shortly).

Configuring Yudit.

Yudit (http://www.yudit.org/)is a unicode editor for many Languages including Indic
languages like Telugu,Tamil,Devanagari,Bengali,Gujarati,Gurmukhi,Oriya,Malayalam
and Kannada.

Installation

1. Download yudit source from http://yudit.org/download.html.
2. Decompress and configure
 cp yudit-2.6.4.tar.gz /tmp; cp Pothana2000.ttf /tmp; cd /tmp;
 tar zxvf yudit-2.6.4.tar.gz
 cd yudit-2.6.4
 ./configure --prefix=your_install_directory
 *******run make and make install**********
 make; 
 make install

done...

Usage.

1. Run yudit.
2.  Assign the "Telugu-Rts" and "Telugu-Inscript" keymaps to any of the function keys [F1-F12].
You can do this by clicking on the "Input" tab which displays all the keymaps.
3. Change to the "Telugu-Rts" keymap and type. The input is just as you would write telugu in english.
Example: "amma" keystrokes would produce the same in Telugu.
4. Have fun, you can also print this stuff or convert to ps.

A Telugu Document On The Web Finally...