Topic started by R. Raman (@ spider-wm051.proxy.aol.com) on Wed Jun 13 15:52:43 .
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Can anyone tell me the year the first modern Tamil novel was published. I vaguely remember a title " -------- Charitham". Was it 1857 or 1870 or 1877?

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• From: MMV (@ cpe-24-221-181-57.ca.sprintbbd.net) on: Sun Jun 24 12:38:33
  
  Dear Mr. Raman,
  
  In the Tamil literature threads, we discuss Tamil in Tamil scripts. To really enjoy Tamil discussions and participate in them, one need to be able to read and write in Tamil on computers. It is fairly easy to read in Tamil.
  
  Most of the posts are in the TSCII encoding. There are plenty of free TSCII fonts available at http://www.tamil.net/tscii/tools.html
  
  Some of the posts are in the Anjal Inaimathi family of fonts. To read them you will need to download the Murasu Anjal software and keep it running. You can also use Murasu Anjal to read the TSCII encoded texts. Murasu Anjal is available at http://www.murasu.com
  
  To write in Tamil, you will need to do some work. All of this is discussed in the How To pages as well as the various practice pages.
  
  http://www.forumhub.com/howto.html
  http://forumhub.com/tlit/4392.21378.13.51.05.html
  http://www.forumhub.com/tlit/21378.13.51.05.html
  
  

  How to post tamil text ?

  
  
  
  
  • Posting TSCII tamil text is easy. Just add the TSCII tag around the text you wish to post:

    
    <TSCII>..whatever in TSCII text...</TSCII>
    

    
    

  • You can also post using FONt tags, e.g. for Murasu Anjal:
    
    <FONT FACE="Inaimathi,Inaikathir,WebTamil">
    
    ... text copied from Murasu editor....
    
    </FONT>

    
    
    Go to the Test Posts thread to test
    if posting works from your browser.

  
  
  Posting in transliterated Tamil makes it hard to quote from other sources, difficult to read fluently and has been unnecessary for at least 5 years. So, do make an effort to download the TSCII fonts and then see for yourself before complaining about the "heiroglophics" (sic).
  
  
• From: R. Raman (@ spider-tp044.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Jun 26 22:44:03
  
  Dear MMV,
  
  Thanks for the information. Very valuable.
  
  
• From: (@ ) on: Wed Aug 15 07:25:23
  
  
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  http://www.kumudam.com/eelam/pg4.html
  [14 July 2001, for the future archive search)
  
  
  
• From: Ramanitharan, K. (@ 129.81.206.10) on: Thu Sep 6 03:22:46
  
  A slight digression
  
  An object-oriented YahooGroups! forum;-)
  
  [ALTAMAG]: ALTernative TAMil MAGazines
  --------------------------------------
  
  This forum is to talk about and
  record the Alternative Tamil Magazines.
  Anything related to ALTAMAG is welcome.
  
  This is a bilingual [English/Tamil] forum.
  Though TSC fonts are preferable,
  Use TSC/TAB-TAM/Baamini fonts.
  
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altamag
  
  I welcome your participation.
  
  

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