[XeTeX] Off topic: Devanagari fonts

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/1/6 Steve White <stevan.white at googlemail.com>:
> 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 <bhutex at gmail.com> 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