MetaPost sandbox

 Posted on May 20, 2024  |  Santhosh Thottingal

While working with MetaPost for typeface design(Nupuram, Malini), I frequently felt the need for a quick and easy way to test code snippets. This mirrors the functionality of popular online sandboxes like CodeSandbox or JSBin, which many developers are already familiar with. These platforms provide a web-based environment where you can edit code, see the output instantly, and avoid the hassle of setting up a complete application or environment. Inspired by this concept, I’ve been developing a MetaPost sandbox, and I’m excited to share it with you in this blog post. [Read More]
metapost 

ആം ചിഹ്നം ഫോണ്ടുകളിൽ

 Posted on October 4, 2023  |  Santhosh Thottingal

ഏറെക്കാലമായി പലരും ചോദിക്കുന്ന ഒരു സംശയമാണ് അക്കങ്ങളുടെ കൂടെ ആം ചിഹ്നം എഴുതുമ്പോൾ വരുന്ന കുത്തുവട്ടം എങ്ങനെ കളയാമെന്ന്. 16-ാം, 18ാം തുടങ്ങിയ ഉദാഹരണങ്ങൾ. ഒട്ടുമിക്ക അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകളുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പുകളിലും ഈ പ്രശ്നം കാണില്ല. ലിബ്രെഓഫീസിൽ പക്ഷേ ഈ പ്രശ്നം തുടരുന്നുണ്ട്. ഇതിനു പരിഹാരമായി ഫോണ്ടുകളിൽ ഒരു ചെറിയ പുതുക്കൽ നടത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. മഞ്ജരി, ഗായത്രി, ചിലങ്ക, നൂപുരം ഫോണ്ടുകളുടെ പുതിയ പതിപ്പുപയോഗിച്ചാൽ ഈ പ്രശ്നം ഒഴിവാകും. പുതിയ പതിപ്പുകൾ smc.org.in/fonts എന്ന പേജിൽ നിന്നെടുക്കാം.

fonts  malayalam 

Wikimania 2023

 Posted on October 4, 2023  |  Santhosh Thottingal

I attended Wikimania 2023, an annual conference of people working on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This year’s conference was at Singapore. State of Machine Learning on the Wikimedia projects I presented a talk titled “State of Machine Learning on the Wikimedia projects”. Machine learning is used in many Wikimedia projects. This talk was be round up of various projects that use ML. I talked about: How Machine learning is used in our project, the benefits and impact. [Read More]
Events 

sentencex: Empowering NLP with Multilingual Sentence Extraction

 Posted on October 4, 2023  |  Santhosh Thottingal

Sentence segmentation is a fundamental process in natural language processing. It involves breaking down a given text into individual sentences, a task that finds applications in various contexts. Whether you need to split a paragraph into sentences for further analysis or present sentence boundaries in a user-friendly frontend application, sentence segmentation is crucial. At first glance, identifying sentence boundaries might seem straightforward – just look for a period or full stop. [Read More]
NLP 

Malayalam Spellchecker version 1.1.1 released

 Posted on August 29, 2020  |  Santhosh Thottingal

A new version of Malayalam spell checker based on mlmorph is available as python library. Install the library $ pip install mlmorph_spellchecker Sample usage >>> from mlmorph_spellchecker import SpellChecker >>> spellchecker = SpellChecker() >>> word = "ഉച്ഛാരണം" >>> spellchecker.spellcheck(word) False >>> spellchecker.candidates(word) ['ഉച്ചാരണം'] >>> spellchecker.spellcheck("ചിത്രകാരൻ") True The new version adds a database of commonly mistaken words of Malayalam for quick checks and correction. If the given word is present in that common list, spellcheck result and correction suggestions will be based on that database. [Read More]

Manjari version 1.910 released

 Posted on August 28, 2020  |  Santhosh Thottingal

A new version of Manjari typeface is available now. New version adds about 25 Latin glyphs that are considered important by Google Fonts checks. Manjari is now integrated with Fontbakery font quality check in its CI. Some bugs reported by Fontbakery is also fixed. It is available at SMC website. Change log is available in gitlab SMC also started to publish the font releases in a new release file server - releases. [Read More]

Manjari - 4th anniversary

 Posted on July 23, 2020  |  Santhosh Thottingal

A rough drawing I did in 2014 November 20 and shared with my friends as a new font idea. I got this concept from my explorations about perfect curves in Malayalam script after I released Chilanka font. I spent all my free time from then onwards till releasing Manjari typeface on 23rd July 2016 by making it as perfect as I can. I took two months time off from my job in 2016 to complete this work too. [Read More]

Morphology analyser based spellchecker - Web version

 Posted on June 20, 2020  |  Santhosh Thottingal

I prepared a web frontend for the Malayalam spellchecker based on the Malayalam morphology analyser. It is available at https://morph.smc.org.in/spellcheck.html. I had written an article about its technology two years ago. There s also an incomplete extension to LibreOffice. The spellchecker is available as an API too. If you want to use it, please refer a minimal code snippet available at codepen. The quality of spellcheck and suggestions provided depend on the completeness of mlmorph project. [Read More]

Video interviews on SMC and FOSS

 Posted on June 20, 2020  |  Santhosh Thottingal

While the COVID-19 pandemic is going on, Kerala free software communities started doing interview series with active contributors. The interviews were very informal and was about personal journey and the story behind the projects. And they were all in Malayalam. I gave 3 such interviews in last few weeks. I am going to list them in this blog post. Humans of SMC Series This was an initiative by Tinkerhub, a non-profit organization which promotes the creation of tech-talent focused among youth, especially students. [Read More]