One year ago I tested all free and commercial Nagari fonts I could
find (including all from CDAC distributed at the last World Sanskrit
Conference). The result was disappointing. There are hardly any fonts
which are without errors of placement as you describe etc.
Unfortunately I did not start a catalogue of faults, because I could
not really find anyone with who would be able to solve them.
Being no expert on either of the fields I cannot say whether it is a
problem of the font or XeTeX or the interaction, but it means, if you
have to print a book, there is only one or two that work and look o.k
(for Sanskrit), that is, Devanagari Monotype and Sanskrit 2003, which
is also fine, but it is really a bold font for verses, not for running
text you want to read.
The situation remains quite unsatisfactory for TeX users, but perhaps
also for others, which I think is absurd in view of the enormous
Indian book market.
Best
J Hanneder
----- Nachricht von "S. venkataraman" <[email protected]> ---------
Datum: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:13:04 +0530
Von: "S. venkataraman" <[email protected]>
Antwort an: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <[email protected]>
Betreff: [XeTeX] Problems in Devanagari typing.
An: [email protected]
I was looking for some free, unicode compliant,
devanagari font family that has regular, italic and bold variants. I found
that aksharyogini, CDAC-GISTYogesh, FreeSans and FreeSerif
fit the bill. But, there are different problems with different fonts.
Here is a minimal example with the problems explained with comments.
Yogesh font is OK but
for the one problem.
Is there a free font with all the three variants that works
properly?
*********example file begins***************
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifxetex}
\RequireXeTeX
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\newfontface\yogesh[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{CDAC-GISTYogesh}
\newfontface\aksharygni[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{Aksharyogini}
\newfontface\freeserif[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSerif}
\newfontface\freesans[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSans}
\begin{document}
\relax
{\yogesh विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %problem with the first word.
Repha is positioned wrongly.
{\aksharygni विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %problem with second word.
dvi ligature is not correct.
{\freeserif विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %Problem with second and
third words. dvi ligature is not correct and kri ligature is not correct.
{\freesans विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %kri ligature is not correct.
\end{document}
**********************example file ends****************
Dr. S. Venkataraman
Associate Professor in Mathematics
School of Sciences
IGNOU
Tel. :29572812
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Prof. Dr. Juergen Hanneder
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
FG Indologie u. Tibetologie
Deutschhausstr.12
35032 Marburg
Germany
Tel. 0049-6421-28-24930
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