[INDOLOGY] Correction and updates of Nirnay Sagar Fonts

[Harry Spier]

Dear Krishnaprasad,
I've attached a pdf of 4 examples of the cluster ṭtr taken from the the
paper transcripts of the IFP .  These are handwritten in  the 50's and 60's
.  They are by different scribes and they all use virama.  I didn't find
any in the IFP transcripts that had the tra underneath, but I stopped
searching after these four.

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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