[INDOLOGY] Ligature/conjunct problem with Devanagari MT

Alex Watson alex.watson at ashoka.edu.in
Thu Sep 22 09:51:33 UTC 2022


Dear Jan

Many thanks indeed!  Those glyph numbers indeed all produce the desired
outcome when I run XeLaTeX.

Problem solved (except for ṅna, which indeed does not appear on the
chart).  Much appreciated!

Best
Alex

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Jan Kučera <jan.kucera at matfyz.cz> wrote:

> I believe this one has ddva on glyph 286.
>
> dba should be 272
> ṅna I don’t think I see in this font, ṅma should be 206
> ṅga should be 204
> ṅka should be 201
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jan Kučera
>
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> To: Alex Watson <alex.watson at ashoka.edu.in>
> Cc: Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Ligature/conjunct problem with Devanagari MT
>
> Le 2022-09-21 08:30, Alex Watson via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> > Dear Colleagues
> >
> > A question about XeLaTeX and the font Devanagari MT.
> >
> > In order to produce Sanskrit editions in devanāgarī script with
> > several layers of apparatus, I use XeLaTeX.
> >
> > My font of choice is Devanagari MT,
>
> It seems that there are several Devanagari MT fonts... Which one do you
> use?
>
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