call for translation updates for Debian Flyer

Joost van Baal-Ilić joostvb-debian at mdcc.cx
Mon Jan 5 13:33:45 GMT 2026


Hi again Abhijith,

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:25:48PM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:
> [..]
> On 05/01/26 08:50 AM, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 12:09:34PM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:
> > > How to start a new translation of debian flyer in Malayalam
> > > language(ml-IN) ?
> > 
> > O, I'd _love_ such a translation!
> > 
> > Do we have any working examples of Malayalam text / script being typesetted
> > by LaTeX?
> 
> A cursory search showed me.
> https://mirrors.zju.edu.cn/CTAN/language/malayalam/doc/mm-usr.pdf

That's the documentation for https://ctan.org/pkg/malayalam-latex , some quick
search makes me believe we don't ship that with Debian; and it seems it's not
part of texlive-latex-extra .

> https://thottingal.in/blog/2014/07/20/typesetting-malayalam-using-xetex/
> I am not sure if it helps.

Appreciated nonetheless!

Isn't the installation manual translated to Malayalam?  Or any other of our
documents?

> > I'll try to find some time to setup malayalam infrastructure for
> > debian-flyers (unless someone else beats me to it).

We'll see...

Bye,

Joost




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