[XeTeX] Problems in Devanagari typing.

[Alastair M. Paterson]

Hi,

You might find a solution at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=annapurnasil

I would be interested to know if this solves your problems.

Regards

Alastair

On 24-Nov-2013 20:28, S. venkataraman wrote:
> I was looking for some free, unicode compliant,
> devanagari font family that  has regular, italic and bold variants.  I 
> found
> that aksharyogini, CDAC-GISTYogesh, FreeSans and FreeSerif
> fit the bill. But, there are different problems with different fonts.
> Here is a minimal example with the problems explained with comments.
>   Yogesh font is OK but
> for the one problem.
> Is there a free font with all the three variants that works
> properly?
> *********example file begins***************
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{ifxetex}
> \RequireXeTeX
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \newfontface\yogesh[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{CDAC-GISTYogesh}
> \newfontface\aksharygni[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{Aksharyogini}
> \newfontface\freeserif[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSerif}
> \newfontface\freesans[Script=Devanagari,Ligatures=TeX]{FreeSans}
> \begin{document}
> \relax
> {\yogesh ?????????  ????-????? ????????}\\ %problem with the first 
> word. Repha is positioned wrongly.
> {\aksharygni ?????????  ????-????? ????????}\\ %problem with second 
> word. dvi ligature is not correct.
> {\freeserif ?????????  ????-????? ????????}\\ %Problem with second and 
> third words. dvi ligature is not correct and kri ligature is not correct.
> {\freesans ?????????  ????-????? ????????}\\ %kri ligature is not correct.
> \end{document}
> **********************example file ends****************
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