Konquerer supports Tamil fonts neatly, once made at the
proper scale under your font directory and served to X. Widely
used Netscape, however, is a problem. Netscape uses only 75 dpi
fonts for display. You might have noticed this even while
viewing Roman fonts, and got annoyed seeing small fonts. That
being the case with Roman, Tamil is impossible to comprehend
under 75 dpi. This can, however, be fixed by specifying the
appropriate resources in your .Xdefaults
file:
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20 Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 150 Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution.iso-8859-1: 150
Remember that TSCII fonts are used as ISO-8859-1 fonts.
The parameter 150
is arbitrary; I have seen
some fonts scaling neatly under 100
itself
(TSCparanar, for one) which is good enough for viewing. If you are
still not satisfied with what you see, try using anti-aliasing under
X.