From: reg.burma (1/17/95) To: Recipients of conference Mail*Link¨ SMTP BurmaNet: Technical Issue From: Received: (from strider) by igc2.igc.apc.org (8.6.9/Revision: 1.5 ) id VAA13793; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 21:14:21 -0800 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 21:14:21 -0800 ************************** BurmaNet ************************** "Appropriate Information Technologies, Practical Strategies" ************************************************************** January 17, 1995 Issue #97 Special Technical Issue This issue of the BurmaNet News is devoted to technical subjects related to Burma and the Internet. Some of the articles have appeared in earlier issues of the News but are collected here for the convenience of readers interested in technical issues. All others can [Bsafely hit the delete key now. ********************************************** Contents: GOPHER----- BURMANET: BURMANET SITE COMING WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)----- BURMANET: BURMA WEBSITE ONLINE CT: ANOTHER BURMA/WWW SERVER COMING SOON SCB: BURMA'S MOSAIC PAGES SCB: BURMA'S MOSAIC PAGES--RESPONSE FONTS OF LANGUAGES FROM BURMA----- SCB: A SUMMARY OF BURMESE FONTS FOR MAC/PC SCB: BURMESE FONT BURMANET: LETTER ON FONTS BURMANET: UPLOADING FONTS OTHER------ BURMANET: MISC. SOURCES ON BURMA AVAILABLE ON THE NET ********************************************** The BurmaNet News is an ********************************* electronic newspaper * * covering Burma. Articles * Iti * from newspapers, magazines, * snotpo * The wire services, news- * werthatcor * letters and the Internet * ruptsbutfea * are published as well as * r.Fearoflos * original material. * ingpowercor * * ruptsthosewhoare * The BurmaNet News is * subjecttoit...Theef * e-mailed directly to * fortnecessarytoremain * subscribers and is * uncorruptedinanenvironm * also distributed via * entwherefearisanintegralpar * the soc.culture.burma and * tofeverydayexistenceisnot * misc.activism.progressive * immediatelyapparent * newsgroups as well as * tothosefortun * the seasia-l mailing * ateenoughtol * list. For a free * iveinstatesgo * subscription to the * vernedbytheru * BurmaNet News, send * leoflaw...Iam * an e-mail note to: * n ota frai * * d.. * strider@igc.apc.org * .D * * aw * Subscriptions are handled * Au * manually so please allow * ng * for a delay before your * San * request is fielded. * Su * * uK * Letters to the editor, * yi * comments or contributions * . * of articles should be ********************************* sent to the strider address as well. For those without e-mail, BurmaNet can be contacted by fax or snailmail. Tel/Fax: (in Thailand) (66)2 234-6674 By snailmail: Attention to BurmaNet, care of Burma Issues PO Box 1076, Silom Post Office, Bangkok 10504 By email: strider@igc.apc.org ************************************************************** BURMANET: BURMANET SITE COMING January 17, 1995 The Sunsite at the University of North Carolina is donating the use of computer facilities and technical support to the Burma-online community in the form of a site for BurmaNet. The site will initially support a BurmaNet gopher and ftp site. A WWW site is also envisioned. Sun Microsystems is a company that makes mini-computers which are much more sophisticated than PCs but not quite supercomputers. The company has created a number of Sunsites around the world as a public service to the Internet community which also serves as a testbed for their equipment. Their support to BurmaNet represents a new initiative on the part of Sunsites to be be more directly involved in humanitarian activities. Suggestions for what sorts of documents to carry on the BurmaNet gopher should be emailed to strider@igc.apc.org Also, if you run a site on the Internet which carries Burma related documents, images, fonts or any other material and would be willing to have them linked to the Burma gopher, please contact BurmaNet. ************************************************************** BURMANET: BURMA WEBSITE ONLINE Free Burma, a WorldWideWebsite is now online. Point your browser to http://199.172.178.200. In the near future, it will also be accessable at the following address: http:/www.interactivist.virtualvegas.com. Here is part of the first page of the Free Burma Website HTML: Name="FREEBRMA.HTM" Free Burma: Home

Welcome to Free Burma


The country of Burma
is lush, rich in natural resources
and home to dozens of peoples and cultures.
But due to a military government of isolationist economic mismanagement,
The people there live without their human rights and in extreme = poverty.
The country of Burma has been under martial law since 1962.

Free Burma is a slogan, a hope, a certain number of web pages, and, until the people there are free and self-governing... the only one there is .
Free Burma is a collection of software, hardware, documentation, and volunteers, all doing what we're best at to hasten the replacement of the current military government who tortures its citizens with one chosen by the people who live there. What Free Burma has to offer is information, and assistance in its dissemination. If you would like to donate software, hardware, time, money, or bandwidth, please contact the Interactivist@virtualvegas.com.


Here's the information


interactivist@virtualvegas.com
******************************************************** CT: ANOTHER BURMA/WWW SERVER COMING SOON I will have an entire SPARC station set up for WWW/mosaic server soon. I have to get a firewall set up. All the software is now in place. Coban Tun ******************************************************** SCB: BURMA'S MOSAIC PAGES 1 response tun soc.culture.burma 8:01 PM Dec 7, 1994 (at macpsy.ucsf.EDU) (From News system) I was able to conect to www.virtualvegas.com's mosaic/netscape pages. It's pretty nifty. I hope some of you who are fortunate enough to have SLIP/PPP can check it out... Ct ********************************************************* SCB: BURMA'S MOSAIC PAGES--RESPONSE Response 1 of 1 from jrchien@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu soc.culture.burma 2:57 PM Dec 9, 1994 () (From News system) In article <9412080401.AA10521@macpsy.ucsf.EDU>, tun@macpsy.ucsf.EDU (Coban Tun) writes: > I was able to conect to www.virtualvegas.com's mosaic/netscape >pages. > It's pretty nifty. I hope some of you who are fortunate enough to >have SLIP/PPP can check it out... > As of December 9, there is no link to burma homepage from www.virtualvegas.com. Home page is located at www.interactivist.virtualvegas.com or 199.172.179.200. ******************************************************** A SUMMARY: BURMESE FONTS FOR MAC/PC L.Aye soc.culture.burma 6:18 PM Dec 15, 1994 (at cs.bham.ac.uk)(From News system) Dear all, I've been reading a lot of mail regarding Burmese fonts for the PC and Macintosh. The answer to the question 'Are there any Burmese fonts?' is a resounding Yes. There are plenty of fonts available but unfortunately, 95% of them are only available from the publishers in Burma. I got them while I was there. They are all commercial fonts but I don't know if you can buy it from abroad. Here is a summary of the official fonts available on the Macintosh: Note: PS 3 means PostScript Type 3 PS 1 means PostScript Type 1 (i.e. compatible with Adobe Type Manager) Mac fonts ===================== NameTypeComments Ava PS 3 The font that lauched a thousand others. Yes, folks, this font was first designed by John Okell of SOAS and created by Perret Andre and Vers L'eglise in September1988. It is still the definitive body text font for all Burmese publications.It is available from the School of Oriental and African Studies, The University of London, Mallet St, London WC1. I think, the cost is 30 pounds Sterling for Academics/studentsand 50 pounds for the rest. Amyanmar PS 1 Bold, long-straight letters Aungsika PS 1 Italicised rough looking characters Avadaung PS 3 Squarish looking characters Ava Free PS 3 cursive (hand-writing) font Cidaung PS 3 As the name suggests, squarish characters with angular corners. Good for sub-head or heading. Classic PS 3 The proper bold Burmese font (the perfect companion to Ava font) FreemyanmarPS 3Paint-stroke characters. Good for headlines in magazines. Kmyanmar PS 3 LCdaung PS 3 Similar to Cidaung, but more squarish. LCmyanmar PS 3 Similar to Classic, but with better kerning and more pronounced serifs. Mirror PS 3 Myanmar PS 3 Ngwemyanmar PS 3 Flattened version of Seinmyanmar. Pyimyanmar PS 3 Modification on Shwemyanmar Seinmyanmar PS 3 Diamond-shaped characters, i.e. 6 sided Shwemyanmar PS 3 Bold version of Shwemyanmar Taungyi PS 3 As the name suggests it's the Shan font. Created by someone in Taungyi (surprise!) who's doing dtp on the Mac. Typeshwe PS 3 Yangon PS 3 Yatanarpoun PS 3 Great for head lines. Note: all the Mac fonts' keyboard layout are identical to that of Ava font, in that they are all phonetically coded, e.g. k = ka, shift-k = kha, t = ta, shift-t = tha, p = pa, m = ma, b= ba gone, shift-b = ba lachite, etc. You get the idea. All the characters of the alphabet, accents and punctuations can be accessed directly from the keyboard by a combination of the following keys: normal keys, shift key, option key and shift-option keys. Because the characters are phonetically coded, the positions of the keys are relatively easy to remember. Most of these fonts (apart from Ava and Taungyi) are created by the Burmese Language Department of the University of Rangoon. I met the person who's responsible for creating these and his assistants. They were using Fontographer on a couple of Mac Classics churning these out at the rate of a new font every 2-3 months---their most recent one being Yatanarpoun. I asked him why he chose to develop on the Mac and not the PC (even though the PC is relatively more abundant than Macs in Burma) he said that for really serious use as a Burmese word-processor, and for training his staff, Macs beat the PCs hands down. The editor of Dana (Sea Pwar Yae) Magazine also said that a fully trained typist takes about 45-60 minutes to type a page of magazine on the Mac. This figure is hard to reach if you are using the PC. IBM PC fonts: ============= Shwe PS 1 Mya PS 1 These fonts were designed and sold, as I recalled, by a software company in Rangoon. They are commercial fonts. Since these were designed to be used by Burmese typists the keyboard layout mimic closely to that of the Burmese typewriter. If you had the chance to see one of those, it's the strangest device you'll ever see. In addition, due to lack of foresight by PC designers (all those years ago) you cannot access the extended characters set (i.e. those above ASCII 128) directly from the PC keyboard. The Burmese fonts make extensive use of these extended characters set (since all the different variations of Burmese characterrs cannot fit within the first 128 ASCII) and the only way to access them is to type the actual ASCII code of the character. Hence you ended up with a very unnatural way of text entry In addition to the above fonts, there are plenty of fonts for the PC. When I was in Burma, I saw lots of them but the situation doesn't look good. The reason is that almost everyone who has a PC also has a copy of Fontographer. With this program, everyone is tweaking the fonts to any way they like, e.g. changing the keyboard layout of the characters, moving the characters from their usual place to somewhere else, adding serifs (if you can call it that) to a few characters here and there and saving it as a different font, etc. *************************** Now, a plug for my own font. Yes, folks. I created a Burmese font (based on the original Ava font) and it looks great as body text font. I created it with Fontographer on the Macintosh a couple of years ago. It is available as Type 1 on the Mac and TrueType on the PC running Windows (so you don't have to go and buy Adobe Type Manager). For PC users, the keyboard layout is the same as that of Mac version (i.e. they are phonetically coded). Just to arouse your curiousity I've created PostScipt files of each of the fonts. However, my site doesn't allow ftp acces and I don't know of a site where I can upload them. Any ideas? Len Aye ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Leonard Kyaw Soe Aung Aye |Internet: lka@cs.bham.ac.uk School of Computer Science, |Janet: lka@uk.ac.bham.cs The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,|tel: +44 (0)21 414-3705 Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TT, England, UK|fax:+44 (0)21 414-4281 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ "...I realized that all men are cremated equal. I'm concentrating on leaving the best looking corpse I can..." -- Guy Kawasaki. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ************************************************* SCB: BURMESE FONT crtaylor@perth.dialex.oz.au soc.culture.burma 10:38 AM Dec 18, 1994 (at perth.DIALix.oz.au) (From News system) For those interested in Burmese fonts here is some info extracted from the October 8, 1994 BurmaNet News: >Karen language fonts are available for retrieval using FTP. This site >is temporary so if it doesn't work , contact strider@ipc.apc.org for >an updated location. Burmese, Mon and Kachin language fonts should >eventually be available over the net as well. [snip] > ftp 149.43.80.1 > >Login as "anonymous" (don't type the quotation marks). The password >will be your Internet address. Once connected, type: cd pub/fonts >To get the font, type: get kar3_0n.ttf >Also, to get the keyboard map that goes with the font, type: > > get keymap3.gif [snip] This is a Windows True Type font so installation under Windows is as per normal (i.e. Control Panel, Fonts etc......). Hope this helps. Would appreciate feedback if other fonts are found here or at any other site. Regards, Carlos Taylor =========================================== Carlos Taylor Perth, Western Australia crtaylor@perth.dialix.oz.au crtaylor@ozemail.com.au =========================================== ******************************************** BURMANET: LETTER ON FONTS From: SXCST10@vms.cis.pitt.edu Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 23:14:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Font Info To: strider@igc.apc.org Dear Friends of the Burmanet: I have some address for you that may be helpful. There are 2 places in Burma you can get Burmese font for Windows. 1. Myanmar Computer #317 Maha Bandoola ST. Botataung, Yangon. Tel: 01-94724, 01-94728 Fax:95-1-94728 2. Win Fonts for Windows : SMMSINC. # 146, 33rd. st. Kyanktada, Yangon. Tel: 01-78548. I don't know about the program for dos. I believe you can find the Burmese font type in some companies in Thailand too. If I have more information I will send it to you. By the way, Do you know address of Prof. John Okell? Take Care, Kay sxcst10@vms.cis.pitt.edu ******************************************** BURMANET: UPLOADING FONTS December 27, 1994 To upload fonts to the Internet, ftp to linux.colgate.edu The procedure would is this: ftp linux.colgate.edu login as anonymous with e-mail address as the password cd incoming put quit If you upload a font, do the net a favor and either post a message on reg.burma, soc.culture.burma or send an email note to BurmaNet to let others know it is there. ********************************************* BURMANET: MISC. SOURCES ON BURMA AVAILABLE ON THE NET December 28, 1994 [Taken from the FreeBurma WWW site] gopher://emailhost.ait.ac.th:70/00/AsiaInfo/CountryInfo/Myanmar%2 "Human Rights in Myanmar" The US State Dept. 1994 gopher://emailhost.ait.ac.th:70/0/library/ref/cia/all/burma" The 1994 World Factbook info on Burma. gopher://cis.anu.edu.au: ftp%3Acoombs.anu.edu.au@/coombspapers/ o=therarchives/asian-studies-archives/burma-archives/"> Lots of good facts and findings from a gopher. http://www.intnet.net/pub/COUNTRIES/Burma">References to something called BurmaNet. ********************************************************* NEWS SOURCES REGULARLY COVERED/ABBREVIATIONS USED BY BURMANET: ********************************************************* AP: ASSOCIATED PRESS AFP: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AW: ASIAWEEK AWSJ: ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL Bt.: THAI BAHT; 25 Bt.=US$1 (APPROX), BBC: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION BI: BURMA ISSUES BKK POST: BANGKOK POST (DAILY NEWSPAPER, BANGKOK) BRC-CM: BURMESE RELIEF CENTER-CHIANG MAI BRC-J: BURMESE RELIEF CENTER-JAPAN CPPSM: C'TEE FOR PUBLICITY OF THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE IN MONLAND FEER: FAR EAST ECONOMIC REVIEW IRRAWADDY: NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY BURMA INFORMATION GROUP JIR: JANE'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW KHRG: KAREN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP Kt. BURMESE KYAT; UP TO 150 KYAT=US$1 BLACK MARKET 100 KYAT=US$1 SEMI-OFFICIAL 6 KYAT=US$1 OFFICIAL MOA: MIRROR OF ARAKAN NATION: THE NATION (DAILY NEWSPAPER, BANGKOK) NLM: NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR (DAILY STATE-RUN NEWSPAPER, RANGOON) S.C.B.:SOC.CULTURE.BURMA NEWSGROUP S.C.T.:SOC.CULTURE.THAI NEWSGROUP SEASIA-L: S.E.ASIA BITNET MAILING LIST SLORC: STATE LAW AND ORDER RESTORATION COUNCIL USG: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT XNA: XINHUA NEWS AGENCY (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA) ************************************************************** ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by electromedia.com with SMTP;17 Jan 1995 05:54:38 U Received: (from notes) by mail.igc.apc.org (8.6.9/Revision: 1.56 ) id BAA25388 for "conf-reg.burma"; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 01:39:40 -0800 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 21:14:29 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: Conference "reg.burma" From: strider@igc.apc.org Subject: BurmaNet: Technical Issue To: Recipients of conference Message-ID: X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: strider@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 575 ======================================================================