Devanagari Unicode fonts for the Mac?

[Sven Sellmer]

Unfortunately, not all ligatures seem to work in this way: for example  
-Gg- (as in gaGgA) appears (both in NeoOffice and in Mail) as G+virāma 
+g (गङ्गा). This ligature I, for one, can only generate in  
TextEdit by enabling "All ligatures". Or is there any way to get  
around this problem?
Best wishes,
Sven Sellmer

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Dr. Sven Sellmer
Adam Mickiewicz University
Institute of Oriental Studies
South Asia Unit
ul. 28 czerwca 1956 nr 198
61-485 Poznań
POLAND
sven at amu.edu.pl

Am 14.05.2009 um 01:25 schrieb James Hartzell:

> Madhav Deshpande had guided me through using the Devanagari QWERTY  
> keyboard
> under the International input option on the Mac (see System  
> Preferences).
> Then selecting the Arial Unicode MS.  This works perfectly well in
> NeoOffice, with all the ligatures required by typing an "f" after the
> relevant letter, then the next letter.  Aspirated letters come from  
> shift,
> plus the letter, initial vowels from alt-letter, etc.  The alt- 
> letter combo
> provides the retroflexes as well.
> ङ from z
> ष from x
> श्र from alt s
> श from shift s
> ण from shift n
> ञ from alt n
> ।  from .
> ऽ from alt '
>
> for instance
> प्रकृति:
> धन्यवाद: etc.
> not sure whether this will work in your Adobe program.
>
> भवदीय:
> James Hartzell
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul G. Hackett  
> <ph2046 at columbia.edu>wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am attempting to typeset some Unicode Devanagari text in Adobe  
>> InDesign
>> (CS3) on the Mac (OS X.5.6) but cannot seem to locate a Unicode  
>> font that
>> will function correctly (i.e. form ligatures) in InDesign.  Does  
>> anyone know
>> of any such font that will do so (free or otherwise)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul Hackett
>> Columbia University
>>