Devanagari Unicode fonts for the Mac?

[James Hartzell]

Dear Sven
I see that you're correct for गङ्गा; I don't know how to get around this
particular problem.
Cheers
James

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Sven Sellmer <sellmers at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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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> 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
>>>
>>>