[INDOLOGY] Correction and updates of Nirnay Sagar Fonts

[Harry Spier]

Dear Madhav and Krishnaprasad
In the KSTS edition of the Ṣaṭtriṃśattattvasandoha if instead of looking at
the devanagari title page you look at the title at the top of each
following page the  "ṭ" and the "tr" cluster under it are more in
proportion and don't look as weird as on the title page.

A pdf of the the Ṣaṭtriṃśattattvasandoha can be downloaded or viewed in the
Muktabodha digital library. Its easy to miss the download link so I'll
describe how to get there.
1. go to http://muktalib5.org/digital_library_secure_entry.htm
2. click on the link on the page and enter username: muktabodha   password:
indology
3. click on Ṣaṭtriṃśattattvasandoha in the left hand panel which brings up
its catalogue record in the right hand panel
4. click on the right hand panel and then scroll down until you see
"photographic facsimile" with the pdf link underneath it.

Harry Spier


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:15 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Krishnaprasad Ji,
>
>      I don't have access to a manuscript of Ṣaṭtriṃśattattvasandoha, but
> here is the title page of the printed book that does not use a cluster of
> "tra" hanging below "ṭ", but prints just "ṭ" with a virāma sign.
>
> [image: image.png]
> On the other hand, the title page of the edition in the Kashmir Text
> Series, uses such a vertical cluster:
>
> [image: image.png]
> However, it looks somewhat odd in its appearance to me.
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus
> Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan
> [Residence: Campbell, California]
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:12 AM Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Krishnaprasad Ji,
>>
>>      Great to see your progress.  A comment.  Some horizontal lines, like
>> that न, look thicker than the top line and lines in some other characters.
>> The thickness should be uniform.  Similarly, the knot for न, म, भ etc.
>> should look exactly the same, and it should look the same whether it
>> appears in full or half forms of these characters.
>>
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Professor Emeritus
>> Sanskrit and Linguistics
>> University of Michigan
>> [Residence: Campbell, California]
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:58 AM Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all
>>> Some more characters.
>>> Thanks
>>> KP
>>>
>>> On Thu 27 Dec, 2018, 8:11 PM Madhav Deshpande, <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Krishnaprasad Ji,
>>>>
>>>>      Thank you so much for this download link.  It is a wealth of
>>>> useful resources.  With best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>>>> Professor Emeritus
>>>> Sanskrit and Linguistics
>>>> University of Michigan
>>>> [Residence: Campbell, California]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 7:22 PM Krishnaprasad G <
>>>> krishnaprasadah.g at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, everyone for supporting me giving feedbacks.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can download from here.
>>>>> https://yadi.sk/d/rDIogm1J3WjKp4
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 8:43 AM Harry Spier <
>>>>> hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dominink Wujastyk wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  modern font technology can help.  OpenType includes some
>>>>>>> "alternates" or "contextual alternates" features that allow the user (or
>>>>>>> auto-select) to select from multiple versions of a glyph.  But I'm sure you
>>>>>>> know this.  And it's only certain advanced text-setting programs like TeX
>>>>>>> that allow one to access such features easily (e.g., through
>>>>>>> fontspec <https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec?lang=en>, manual part IV).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use the FontCreator program from Hi-Logic which allows you to
>>>>>> create open type "contextual features".  I've used this feature. I use the
>>>>>> professional product which retails for $199.00 but their website says that
>>>>>> the Home edition for $79.00 also has this feature (but the home edition
>>>>>> cannot be used for commercial purposes).  The program only works on windows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Such questions make me wish to consult Naik's classic work *Typography
>>>>>>> of Devanagari <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6241715>* (3 vols, 1971
>>>>>>> rev. ed.), but I've never had access to a copy of this rare publication.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have this book. (Unfortunately its in storage in New York). Its
>>>>>> been 20 years since I looked at it but I recall it was absolutely
>>>>>> fascinating.  As I recall  one volume gives examples of devanagari printing
>>>>>> from the earliest printed editions up till fairly modern times (when it was
>>>>>> published), another volume  describes the authors ideas for a devanagari
>>>>>> typewriter and the third volume focuses on some esoteric ideas of the
>>>>>> author.  I can't recall the details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Harry Spier
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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