[INDOLOGY] Correction and updates of Nirnay Sagar Fonts

Sun Feb 24 10:27:00 UTC 2019

Dear Prof Dominik Wujastyk
Awesome! This is one of the greatest things I have received. I am
grateful to you. You made my burden reduce.
I am attaching the same conjunct list to this email which is searchable.
But the list is not having Nuktas

Thanks a lot

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:32 AM Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Found it!  It was done in 1990 by James E. Agenbroad, and is called "Difficult
> Characters
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfbemsft06wdm1c/Agenbroad_1990_Difficult%20Characters.pdf?dl=0>."
> It was presented as a paper at the 33rd International Congress of Asian and
> North African Studies in Toronto in 1990.  Agenbroad lists 866 conjunct
> characters.
>
>
>
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
> ,
>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ,
>
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> ,
> University of Alberta, Canada
> .
>
> South Asia at the U of A:
>
> sas.ualberta.ca
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 07:23, Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear Harry Spier
>> Thanks a lot this great. You helped me a lot.
>> Dear all before creating fonts I was searching a lot for the most used
>> conjuncts in Sanskrit(not Vedic) but could not found, I am glad that
>> Dominik Wujastyk is going to send the list and I am waiting for that.
>> And for benefit of others, I am sharing all the important conjuncts here.
>>
>> क्क क्त क्त्य क्त्व क्न क्न्य क्म क्य क्र क्र्य क्ल क्व क्ष क्ष्ण क्ष्म
>> क्ष्म्य क्ष्य क्ष्व ख्य ग्ध ग्न ग्न्य ग्र ग्र्य ग्ल ग्व घ्न घ्न्य घ्य घ्र
>> घ्र्य ध्व ङ्क ङ्ख ङ्ख्य ङ्क्त ङ्क्त्य च्च च्छ च्छ्र च्छ्व च्म च्य ज्ज ज्र
>> ज्र्य ज्व ट्ट ट्त्रि ट्य ट्सु ट्स ठ्य ठ्र ठ्सु ड्ग ड्म ड्य ढ्व ढ्य ण्ण ण्म
>> ण्य ण्व त्त त्त्य त्त्र त्थ थ्य त्न त्न्य न्त्र्य त्प त्प्र त्फ त्म त्म्य
>> त्य त्र त्र्य त्व त्स त्स्न त्स्न्य त्स्य द्ग द्ग्र द्द द्द्य द्ध द्ब द्ब्र
>> द्भ द्ध्य द्म द्य द्र द्र्य द्व द्व्य द्व्र  ध्न ध्न्य न्न न्न्य न्म न्य
>> न्व प्त प्त्य प्न प्म प्य प्र प्ल प्स प्स्य ब्ज ब्द ब्द्य ब्ध ब्य ब्र भ्ण
>> भ्न भ्य भ्र भ्व म्म म्ण म्ण्य म्य म्र म्ल म्व य्व र्ण्य र्ध्व र्व्य
>> र्त्स्न्य ल्क ल्ग ल्प ल्म ल्य ल्ल ल्व व्य व्र श्च श्न श्म श्य श्र श्ल श्व
>> ष्क ष्क्र ष्ट ष्ट्य ष्ट्र ष्ट्व ष्ठ ष्ठ्य ष्ण ष्प ष्प्र ष्म ष्य ष्व स्क स्ख
>> स्त स्त्य स्थ स्थ्य स्न स्प्र स्फ स्म स्य स्र ह्ण ह्न ह्न्य ह्म ह्य ह्र
>> ह्ल ह्व
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:53 AM Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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