2012/1/6 Steve White <[email protected]>: > Hi, bhutex! > > I'm the admin of GNU FreeFont. > > You mentioned some problems with the Hindi/Devnagari range in FreeSans. > I did not know that FreeSans and FreeSerif contain contain Devanagari. The fonts were installed with my Linux distribution thus I will try to make some tests.
> We try very hard to address any bugs promptly, but can only do so if they > are reported to us (in enough detail we can understand). > > Please report problems on the FreeFont bugs page! > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=freefont > > Thanks! > > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:59 AM, bhutex <[email protected]> wrote: >> Following Unicode free fonts are available for Hindi/Devnagari : >> >> Akshar Unicode - not beautiful >> Chandas - Full font, not only devnagari but all characters needed for >> typesetting vedas etc. >> Uttara - Probably a variant of Chandas >> Nakula and Sahedava - Twin fonts >> FreeSans - it has Devnagari but not fully working for example फ्र etc. are >> not coming properly >> Osha - >> Guruma - >> Siddhanta - It has variants like Siddhanta 1, Siddhanta 2, Chakravat, >> Chakravat 2 >> Calcutta , Calcutta1, Calcutta 2, Vyakaran and Nepali >> Sanskrit2003 >> AA-NagariShri >> >> In addition some fonts are available on the Govt. of India's Ministry of >> Information Technology website (around 50 fonts (including Bold, Italic, >> Bold Italic)) fromC-DAC etc. organizations. But these fonts also have some >> problem Just like FreeSans. >> >> The fonts mentioned above (for dictionary type work) are sufficient. C-DAC >> fonts are mostly decorative fonts. >> >> >> -- >> Happy TeXing >> The BHU TeX Group >> क्या आप यह देख पा रहें हैं। >> इस का मतलब आप का कम्प्यूटर यूनीकोड >> को समझती है। देर किस बात की हिन्दी मे >> चिठ्ठियां लिखिये। >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
