<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div>Let me begin with the primary
declaration that I've a very little knowledge of how TeX works, I have
some requests regarding the compiler. Please correct me if I have
understood something wrong.</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><a href="http://www.tug.org/FontCatalogue/" target="_blank">This</a>
is a link which I found for LaTeX fonts. This collection does not
include Devanagari fonts. Devanagari is a script which has dedicated
Unicode numbers which can be found <a href="https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. I've attached three zip files namely Yashovenu, Yashomudra and Jaini. Yashovenu is a free and open source font (<a href="https://github.com/RajyaMarathiVikasSanstha/Yashovenu" target="_blank">project link</a>)
which is Sans Serif by style. Yashomudra is the serif version of the
same font. No need to mention that it is also free and open source (<a href="https://github.com/RajyaMarathiVikasSanstha/Yashomudra" target="_blank">project link</a>). Both of these fonts are available in all the weights. Jaini is an old style Devanagari font (again open source, <a href="https://github.com/EkType/Jaini" target="_blank">this</a>
is the project link). Unfortunately this font is not available in all
the weights, but it contains one variant named Jaini-Purva which is an
even older style of Devanagari script.</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">The
point of mentioning all of this is Devanagari is a completely
computer-friendly script. Is it possible to include at least these four
fonts in the TeXLive distribution as the representatives of Devanagari
script? The purpose would be a step towards localization of LaTeX
project. Right now if Devanagari is to be used in LaTeX, one has to load
fontspec or polyglossia or other packages like these and compile the
document with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. Consider this as a feature request
for making PdfLaTeX also able to compile Devanagari characters in input
and giving output in some default Devanagari fonts. (Preferably the
attached one.) My idea would be to have simple commands like <b>\fontstyle</b> with following options of (compulsory) arguments -<br></div><div style="text-align:left"><ol><li>"\sansserif" - (Yashovenu)</li><li>"\serif" - (Yashomudra)</li><li>"\olddeva" - (Jaini)</li><li>"\traditionaldeva - (Jaini Purva)</li></ol></div><div style="text-align:left">Please
let me know if I can help you in any ways. If there are some technical
(or TeXnical) problems, please make me aware of the same. I would be
very happy to work for this small step of localization if needed.</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Waiting for your response.</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Regards,</div><div style="text-align:left">Niranjan</div><div style="text-align:left">Department of Linguistics,<br></div><div style="text-align:left">University of Mumbai.</div></div>