dear m s
i could not fully understand your latest post but:
- tamil scripts are only supported in scribus 1.5.3 and later. scribus 1.4.x cannot render your text correctly.
- you must use a font that support the tamil language *and* is good enough for scribus to use it.
arial fonts might or not contain the glyphs you need and might or not be good enough for professional printing. sorry, i cannot judge.
- for having talked to oryia, i know that his font does work with scribus 1.5.3 and correctly renders tamils glyphs.
if there are issues with it, you should fill a ticket in his github repository.
- sadly, i cannot read your language and i cannot judge about the differences between catamaran and arial.
- as far as i know, catamaran is the only free font correctly supporting the tamil language for print stuff, so i fear that the easy path is to use it for your documents.
have fun
a.l.e