[INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux

Sat Jul 24 14:01:34 UTC 2021

That was exactly my doubt, Tim, but my lack of technical knowledge blurred
my words.

Can it be used in xelatex with polyglossia?

b.w.
Adriano

Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
Língua e Literatura Sânscrita
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Em sáb., 24 de jul. de 2021 às 08:40, Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> escreveu:

> Dear Adriano,
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> As far as I understand, your problem is that the Velthuis “font”
> <https://ctan.org/tex-archive/language/devanagari/velthuis/?lang=en> does
> not exist as a ttf or otf font, which would indeed be usable across
> platforms like other such fonts, but rather it is a metafont
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont> native to the TeX environment,
> and can only be used in TeX.
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> Best,
> Tim
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> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Reply-To: *Adriano Aprigliano <aprigliano at usp.br>
> *Date: *Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 6:31 AM
> *To: *Michael <mjs at spicemail.cc>
> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux
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> Thank you, Michael,
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> I'm aware of that.
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> The problem is that this one is a font for Latex, part of a specific
> package and I don't know how to use it, for example, in common text editors
> like libreoffice, word, etc.
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> b.r.
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> Adriano
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> Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
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> Língua e Literatura Sânscrita
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> DLCV/FFLCH-USP
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> Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900
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> Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil
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> Em sex., 23 de jul. de 2021 às 23:39, Michael <mjs at spicemail.cc> escreveu:
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> Dear Adriano,
>
> Fonts are not specific to operating systems.  I have moved from MacOS to
> Linux to BSD over the course of the past 15 years, and I have never had a
> font that worked on one not work on another operating system.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Michael Slouber
>
>
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> On 7/23/21 8:25 AM, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> Does anyone know if Velthuis nagari font is available as a unicode font
> for linux?
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> Best regards
>
> Adriano
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> Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
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> Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil
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