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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Dominik,<br>
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Do you have any opinion on Junicode or Latin Modern for
transliteration from Indic languages?<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Nathan<br>
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On 6/13/15 6:21 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Dear Juergen,<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Nice to see you here (I just read
your 2011 I. Taurinensia paper last night!).<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Yes, you are right, some fonts just
don't have the right characters in them. Some of the font
"pigeonholes" are empty. If you make the character with a TeX
macro (\.n) then usually things work even if the font lacks
the char, because TeX puts together an accent from one place
with the character from another. If the overdot accent char
is missing, then even TeX can't fix things.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">I use the following at the start of
my docs:<br>
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<div>% XeLaTeX stuff:<br>
% Normalize any residual Unicode combining accents, <br>
% and write out error messages, if any:<br>
%<br>
\XeTeXinputnormalization=1<br>
\tracinglostchars=1 <br>
\tracingonline=1 <br>
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<div class="gmail_default">You can read up on what these do, but
especially the \tracinglostchars is helpful so that missing
chars are flagged in the log file. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default">And for complete fonts, I find the
SIL fonts, like Gentium, the TeXGyre family, and the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brill.com/about/brill-fonts">Brill font</a>
(that is free to use but not for publishing with others than
Brill without permission), are all complete for Indic work.
Oh, and also John Smith's fonts, at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://Bombay.indology.info">http://Bombay.indology.info</a>.
DejaVu fonts are also very complete. I'm sure there are many
others: these are just my personal practical observations
without a systematic survey or testing.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Yesterday, Alessandro Graheli was
telling me that the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.murtylibrary.com/design-and-typography.php">Murty
Library fonts</a> are excellent; especially he praised their
Devanagari, that is explicitly modelled on the Nirnayasagara
family. Fiona Ross was involved in making the Murty fonts,
and she is extremely experienced and knowledgeable about
Indian fonts. The Murty fonts are like the Brill, you can use
them freely, but if you want to publish a book with them, you
have to ask permission. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Best,<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Dominik<br>
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