<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">I've done some more Devanagari font testing, and the results <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xrWfqTJ9Xjo/WUXAcgjxhVI/AAAAAAAApRA/36wC0n2gjlQQB9bNDnTGGPjD13veSgoXQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2017-06-17%2B17-48-08.png">can be viewed here</a>. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">The TeX code that produced this is <a href="https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2017/06/expanded-devanagari-font-comparison.html">in my blog</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">Of the fonts tried out, only Sanskrit 2003, Murty Sanskrit, and Shobhika do the right things with </span><i style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">ṣaṭtriṃśad</i><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Dominik</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor <a href="http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Dominik Wujastyk</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br>Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br></font><div><font size="1"><a href="http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Department of History and Classics</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div></font></div><font size="1">University of Alberta, Canada<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><br></font></div><div><font size="1">South Asia at the U of A:</font><font size="1" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(17,85,204);display:inline"> </div><a href="http://sas.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sas.ualberta.ca</a><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 June 2017 at 09:39, Dominik Wujastyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wujastyk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wujastyk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Vikram,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Your plan to work on refining and expanding Sanskrit 2003 is excellent! Since funding is needed, I recommend you consider a crowd-funding initiative. That would fit the situation very well, allowing people to contribute in a structured and transparent manner, and avoiding many legal and financial problems.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please, please give the font a new name, when your work is released. Even if it's just Sanskrit 2003A.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">About the design of Sanskrit 2003, I still like the font best, I think, amongst the many Devanagaris available today. Murty Sanskrit is my second choice, and I would add that Murty Sanskrit looks better on paper than on the screen.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">However, about Sanskrit 2003, I find it a little compressed, horizontally. The document processing system I use, TeX, allows me to tweak that as I wish, and I have found that expanding Sanskrit 2003 by 8% horizontally gives a result that is more pleasing to my eye. It's a personal thing, but perhaps worth thinking about.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y96ufrog" target="_blank">Here are some samples</a> of Sanskrit 2003 normal and stretched, with some other faces for comparison.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dominik</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_3107178333917997535gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor <a href="http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Dominik Wujastyk</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br>Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br></font><div><font size="1"><a href="http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Department of History and Classics</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div></font></div><font size="1">University of Alberta, Canada<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><br></font></div><div><font size="1">South Asia at the U of A:</font><font size="1" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(17,85,204);display:inline"> </div><a href="http://sas.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sas.ualberta.ca</a><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 15 June 2017 at 13:51, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:indology@list.indology.info" target="_blank">indology@list.indology.info</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello Vikram,<div><br></div><div> This is a wonderful news. Having done some font-designing myself, I know how time-consuming and complicated this work is. I hope your effort is successful and produces an improved version of Sanskrit 2003, with light, bold and italic versions. Please keep us posted about availability of these new versions. With best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Madhav Deshpande</div><div>Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Vikram Iyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vikram85.iyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">vikram85.iyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div> I am writing this as I am collaborating with a typography expert to create a better version of Sanskrit 2003 free for all with support for light weight and several ligature upgrades. As with any activity of this scale funds are required to be able to keep the project going. If anyone is willing to contribute financially please get in touch with me. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> A sample version of the upgraded font is attached below. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p class="m_3107178333917997535m_3226635426651508535m_-4624783459215963432separator" style="text-align:center;clear:both"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5PUqOJ81id8/WUKWHI9KrBI/AAAAAAAAK_U/LuRRxXRlmbw-OagEfS1N2vzoPB594qKEgCLcBGAs/s1600/Sanskrit%2BBold%252BFinetuned%252BLight.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5PUqOJ81id8/WUKWHI9KrBI/AAAAAAAAK_U/LuRRxXRlmbw-OagEfS1N2vzoPB594qKEgCLcBGAs/s320/Sanskrit%2BBold%252BFinetuned%252BLight.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="226"></a></p><div><br></div><div><br>On Thursday, 8 June 2017 19:32:10 UTC+5:30, Madhav Deshpande wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div> I have been using the Sanskrit 2003 unicode Devanagari font for some time, and have noticed that for some characters, the anusvāra almost merges with characters like sign for short "i". Here are a few sample lines:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://groups.google.com/group/bvparishat/attach/ce3f665d0c68/image.png?part=0.1&authuser=0" alt="Inline image 1" width="454" height="57"><br></div><div> Am I alone in seeing these problems, or is this happening only on Mac computers, and not on Windows? I have written to Omkarananda Ashram about this and I am hoping to hear from them.</div><div> If someone has a solution to this font problem, I would appreciate hearing it. </div><div><br></div><div>Madhav Deshpande</div><div>Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA</div><div><br></div><span class="m_3107178333917997535HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="m_3107178333917997535HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_3107178333917997535m_3226635426651508535HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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