<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I was looking for some free, unicode compliant,<br>devanagari font family that has regular, italic and bold variants. I found<br></div><div>that aksharyogini, CDAC-GISTYogesh, FreeSans and FreeSerif<br>
</div><div>fit the bill. But, there are different problems with different fonts. <br></div><div>Here is a minimal example with the problems explained with comments.<br></div><div> Yogesh font is OK but<br></div><div>for the one problem. <br>
</div><div>Is there a free font with all the three variants that works<br></div><div>properly?<br></div><div>*********example file begins***************<br></div><div>\documentclass{article} <br>\usepackage{ifxetex}<br>\RequireXeTeX<br>
\usepackage{fontspec}<br>\usepackage{xunicode}<br>\usepackage{xltxtra}<br>\newfontface\yogesh[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{CDAC-GISTYogesh}<br>\newfontface\aksharygni[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{Aksharyogini}<br>
\newfontface\freeserif[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSerif}<br>\newfontface\freesans[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSans}<br>\begin{document}<br>\relax<br>{\yogesh विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %problem with the first word. Repha is positioned wrongly.<br>
{\aksharygni विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %problem with second word. dvi ligature is not correct.<br>{\freeserif विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %Problem with second and third words. dvi ligature is not correct and kri ligature is not correct.<br>
{\freesans विकर्णनीय द्वि-आधारी संक्रिया}\\ %kri ligature is not correct.<br>\end{document}<br></div><div>**********************example file ends****************<br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>
<div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. S. Venkataraman<br>Associate Professor in Mathematics<br>School of Sciences<br>IGNOU<br></div>Tel. :29572812<br></div>
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