[XeTeX] Off topic: Devanagari fonts

[Shrisha Rao]

El ene 3, 2012, a las 3:20 p.m., François Patte escribió:

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> Le 02/01/2012 23:56, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> I apologize for an off topic postig but I hope I find here some people
>> who can help me. I am going to typeset a bilingual book of modern
>> poetry in Czech and Hindi. Can you suggest me a beautiful OpenType
>> Devanagari font?
> 
> Sanskrit2003 (it is true type, but you can convert it to open type).

I like the Velthuis font, but do not know of an OT version, and don't know how to convert it.  It can thus be used with the devnag preprocessor but not with XeTeX, which is a pain.

Regards,

Shrisha Rao

> I think that there is a lack of "nice" nagari fonts in open type. I
> could be interesting that some specialist produce somthing similar to
> the fonts used by the Nirnaya Sagar Press.
> 
> Regards.
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