2013/11/24 S. venkataraman <[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}
It depends on the version of XeTeX and FreeFont. The shaping engine was changed in 2013 and the old versions of FreeFont (release 2012-05-03) no longer works. You have to use the latest version from subversion at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ This book was typeset with it using XeLaTeX from TeX Live 2013: http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ArunakashKaRasta/index-hi.php > **********************example file ends**************** > Dr. S. Venkataraman > Associate Professor in Mathematics > School of Sciences > IGNOU > Tel. :29572812 > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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
