[INDOLOGY] Correction and updates of Nirnay Sagar Fonts

Tue Feb 19 21:12:56 UTC 2019

A clarification.  You have to go to at least page page 2 to see the ṭ  and
tra more in proportion.  Page 1 is the same as the title page.

Harry Spier

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:04 PM Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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