[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[Steve White]

Hi Bhutex!

Are you using the current version of 20120503 or some older one?  A
great deal of effort went into the Devanagari range in the current
version.
    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/

If you are talking about this year's release, could you please be more
specific, as to which tables are missing?  If so, please file a bug
report at
    https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=freefont

Thanks again!


On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, bhutex <bhutex at gmail.com> wrote:
> The FreeSerif is not a complete font. The font tables for Devnagari are not
> fully implemented in it.
>
> But FreeSans has the necessary tables so it works. I also suggested some
> corrections which were incorporated in to the FreeSans.
>
> DVG
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Neal Delmonico
>> <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I hope I'm not wrong but the FreeSerif Devanagari glyphs seem to be
>> derived from Lohit Devanagari (https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/).
>>
>> I have had problems with FreeSerif on LibreOffice also. IMHO it is
>> better to use DejaVu for European scripts and Lohit family for Indic
>> scripts. I am not saying that the Lohit family is perfect, but the
>> maintainers are very responsive to bug reports. So you might try and
>> see whether the Lohit fonts are better suited to your requirements.
>>
>> --
>> Shriramana Sharma
>>
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