On Saturday, January 22, 2022 1:07:22 PM IST Richard Mahoney via ntg-context wrote: > I'm wondering, how have you found the new > input/translation method with "Shobhika Regular," a font a few of us > might be keen to use?
I have myself been using Shobhika with relative success for quite some time now. Due to its great conjunct support, it is a good font as well. In ConTeXt it is advisable to use it with the deva script tag. So, with features=devanagari-one Please note that it is missing some IAST glyphs ḻ (=ळ) l̥ ,are just two examples. [For roman transliteration (IAST), I have seen that the Brill font has very good glyph coverage but it does not have vedic accents IIRC.] However, there is one (minor) issue in the devanagari side of things: See here (long read): https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg99691.html TLDR: there are one set of conjuncts which don't work right-away, namely the र-based conjunct forms with the following consonant: छ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ with post- base and below-base vowel marks, namely ी, ा, ौ, ु and ू For example छ्री will not render as expected in ConTeXt (with devanagari-one). To fix this one can temporarily switch to the devanagari-two feature set as follows {\feature[=][devanagari-two] छ्री} which can be wrapped into a macro. Otherwise, all the features work well. Best, kauśika ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
