translating to malayalam / Re: call for translation updates for Debian Flyer

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi again Abhijith,

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:33:45PM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> 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 .

I guess a bug (ideally with patch...) to Source Package: texlive-lang should be
filed.

> > 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?

No it's not: 17 languages, including some with "interesting" native scripts.

> Or any other of our documents?

Hrm, maybe when tranlating to Malayalam we should start with some document with
a somewhat more modern build engine.  People are migrating to reStructuredText
these days.  I'd guess the translation infrastructure for that is easier to set
up.

I also saw that https://www.debian.org/social_contract is not tranlated to
Malayalam yet.  It is translated in 30 languages.  Once that's translated, we
could maybe have a Malayalam version of
https://debian.pages.debian.net/debian-flyers/files/social_contract_fr.pdf .

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

Still haven't completely given up yet... :)

Bye,

Joost