[INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux

Sat Jul 24 15:21:00 UTC 2021

Thanks, Adheesh,

I'll' give it a try.

b.r.
Adriano

Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
Língua e Literatura Sânscrita
DLCV/FFLCH-USP
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900
Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil

Em sáb., 24 de jul. de 2021 às 11:51, adheesh sathaye <adheesh1 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hi Adriano, and all,
>
> It seems that the Velthuis orthography has been incorporated into the
> Serif versions of the all-purpose “GNU Free Font” (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont), with more info available
> here (https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/), and downloadable from
> here: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
>
> I downloaded and tested the file  freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz
> <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz>, and it
> seems to show up OK on my Mac, though many ligatures are missing (e.g., Xr
> series, where X stands for any consonant), so, not really satisfactory.
> maybe there are others out there?
>
> On the CTAN archives, you can get the whole devanagari TeX/LaTeX package,
> which  includes all the Type 1 fonts used in the typesetting.
> https://ctan.org/pkg/devanagari Maybe it can be figured out how to
> upgrade these fonts to the OpenType standard, if you are looking to use
> them outside of the TeX environment.
>
> For XeTeX, you can see Daniel Stender’s input maps here:
> https://ctan.org/pkg/xetex-devanagari (which can be used to process IAST
> as well as KH transliteration in addition to Velthuis’s scheme)
>
> There is also an excellent manual by Anshuman Pandey for using the package
> in TeX/LaTeX from 2019 here:
> http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/language/devanagari/velthuis/doc/manual.pdf
>
>
> all best wishes,
> Adheesh
>
> —
> Adheesh Sathaye
> University of British Columbia
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2021, at 10:01, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> 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
> DLCV/FFLCH-USP
> Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900
> Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil
>
>
>
> Em sáb., 24 de jul. de 2021 às 08:40, Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu>
> escreveu:
>
>> Dear Adriano,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you, Michael,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm aware of that.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> b.r.
>>
>> Adriano
>>
>>
>>
>> Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
>>
>> Língua e Literatura Sânscrita
>>
>> DLCV/FFLCH-USP
>>
>> Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/23/21 8:25 AM, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if Velthuis nagari font is available as a unicode font
>> for linux?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Adriano
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano
>>
>> Língua e Literatura Sânscrita
>>
>> DLCV/FFLCH-USP
>>
>> Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900
>>
>> Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil
>>
>>
>>
>>
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