[INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux

Mon Jul 26 18:20:36 UTC 2021

About FreeFonts, they have many merits, but there are technical problems
too.  See

   -
   https://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2014/12/gnu-freefont-fonts-and-xelatex.html

There was a fix for the conjunct problem that Norbert Preining worked out,
but it stopped working in 2017.  I haven't checked back since 2017.

The official distribution directory for GNU Freefont
<http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/?C=M;O=D> shows the latest edit was in
2012. Back in about 2014, I corresponded with the author, Stevan White, and
he was aware of the problems but didn't have the resources of time to do
major new work on the fonts

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 08:53, adheesh sathaye via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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