[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[Steve White]

Hi Neal,

If there are real problems, I would like to try to fix them.

Would you please send me, all files for a test using FreeSerif only,
with the command line you use to build it?  (I tried xelatex on the
test.tex file and the header file you posted, but I had to make a lot
of changes just to get it to tex.)

Thanks!


On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Neal Delmonico <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I am happy to say that I finally got it working.  Those Freefonts were
> installed on my computer no less than four times (not counting texlive).
> Moodle installed them as did Joomla.  I had installed them from the
> ports collection and apparently the system installed them, or perhaps it
> was X-windows.  Anyway, I found them with the X-11 fonts.  When I got
> them all removed XeLaTeX could no longer find FreeSerif.  I don't know
> why the Texlive installation could not find fonts it had installed.
> Anyway, I downloaded the most recent version of the Freefonts and placed
> them in the X-11 font directory, ran all the programs so that X could
> find them and voila! suddenly XeLaTeX could find them too.  Sadly, I see
> that FreeSerif does not handle some of the common conjuncts well.
> Guttural n and g do not combine, nor do d and g, for instance.  Also the
> Devanagari was replaced by little empty boxes in my page headings Where
> I put the Sanskrit titles of the chapters along with their English
> translations.  Nakula and Sahadeva and even Sanskrit 2003 could all do
> those things.  FreeSerif is a nice looking Devanagari font, but it is
> still not up to where it needs to be in order for me to use it
> regularly.
>
> Thanks for your help, everyone.
>
> Best
>
> Neal
>
>
>
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