[Tugindia] Installing itrans and Devanagari fonts in Linux

[Nikhil Joshi]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Ganesh Ramesh wrote:

>   I am looking for some good references that would explain in detail the
> process of installing the devanagari fonts and using them with
> latex/pdflatex under Linux. Can anyone give me pointers/references to
> websites or books for the same? I have latex/pdflatex installed with SuSE
> 8.0 professional version of linux.

Hi!
I'm a newbie at latex so beware ;)

First I tried the CTAN way (their install instrucs) of installing the dev
package i.e. creating local subdirectories and putting ur new stuff there
nd making sure texhash doesnt include them in its ls-R (whatever it is)
database

Whew 
It didnt work :(

So I did a "simple" (nd may be dumb) workaround.
Put *all* the stuff (fonts,sty files et al) in one dir in ur home 
and thats it !!!

create a new tex file in that dir nd just \usepackage{dev}
and enjoy :)

HTH
Nikhil

P.S.
I'm using RHL 7.2