Manjushree CSX

[Madhav Deshpande]

As the creator of Manjushree CSX, I can say that its Windows version
pretty much follows the ascii locations used in CSX fonts, with one or to
minor differences, which I cannot recollect at this point.  I believe
ascii 160 could not be shown in MS Word and the character assigned to it
had to be assigned to a different ascii code.  The Mac version of
Manjushree CSX is somewhat different from the Windows version in that it
also makes use of the so-called upper ascii numbers, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29.  These codes can be use for
characters on MS Word on Mac, but not on Windows.  The Mac version of
Manjushree CSX uses these codes for showing vowels with combinations of
accents, length, and nasality.  These are useful for special purposes, but
are not included in the old standard CSX coding.  I have used these for
some of my publications on Panini and the Pratisakhyas.  I hope this
explains the nature of this font.  Best,
                                        Madhav Deshpande

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, John D. Dunne wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I have found a message in the archive which seems to suggest that
> Manjushree CSX does not in fact follow CSX coding. That is, the character
> locations will not correspond to the ASCII locations used for CSX fonts in
> Windows.
>
> Am I correct? That is, is it indeed the case that Manjushree CSX does not
> use the CSX character locations used by Windows TTF CSX fonts?
>
> If I am correct in this, has anyone written a conversion program/macro? I
> do not have the time to do so now.
>
> If I am not correct, then is there a more basic problem with cross-platform
> (Mac ==> PC) compatability of the Manjushree CSX font? Even using the most
> advanced of conversion utilities, I can find no means to preserve CSX
> (ascii) character locations for documents encoded in Mac word processors
> with the manjushree font.
>
> As you can see, I am not particularly knowledgable about Macs, although I
> know my way around PCs.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>
> Yours,
>
> John Dunne
>
>
> =========================
> John D. Dunne
> Assistant Professor
> Languages and Cultures of Asia
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
>