[INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word broken after recent update

[Harry Spier]

I use the latest version of LibreOffice on Windows and I have no problems
Harry Spier


On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 6:47 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is ths just a Mac problem or is it also on windows?
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 4:10 PM Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I, too, and no doubt many others are having this or similar problems with
>> various Unicode-compliant ttf/ttc and otf Devanāgarī fonts when used in
>> Microsoft Office software.  This is a headache because I have numerous
>> documents using Arial Unicode for the Devanāgarī, and now when I open them
>> in Word, or paste text from them into Outlook, all the conjunct glyphs are
>> decomposed with *virama*.  (Those fonts still work fine in other
>> softwore, e.g., TextEdit, LibreOffice, etc.)
>>
>>
>>
>> I have in fact posted to Microsoft discussion board about this, but I
>> have received no useful guidance:
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>> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-office-for-mac-has-stopped-displaying/ebd3fba8-edac-42e0-954b-cfcdc58679f8
>>
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>> I have compiled a list of fonts that DO still work for me in Word (and
>> display properly in Outlook):
>>
>>
>>
>> Baloo
>>
>> Devanagari Sangam
>>
>> Gotu
>>
>> ITF Devanagari
>>
>> Kohinoor Devanagari
>>
>> Lava Devanagari
>>
>> Mukta
>>
>> Noto Sans Devanagari
>>
>> October Devanagari
>>
>> Sama Devanagari
>>
>> Shobhika Devanagari
>>
>> Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit (or Hindi)
>>
>>
>>
>> The list of fonts that no longer work for me include such common ones as
>> Arial Unicode MS and Sanskrit 2003/2020, along with several others.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> Timothy Lubin
>> Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law
>> Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program
>> 204 Tucker Hall
>> Washington and Lee University
>> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>>
>> https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/
>> http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin
>> https://ssrn.com/author=930949
>> https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy
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>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Reply-To: *Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
>> *Date: *Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 3:27 PM
>> *To: *Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in
>> Word broken after recent update
>>
>>
>>
>> I have noticed the same problem on my Mac / MSWord.
>>
>>
>>
>> Madhav Deshpande
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>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> The following was posted to the Samskrta list.
>>
>> Harry Spier
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: *Bandaru Viswanath* <vegavahini at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 2:12 PM
>> Subject: [Samskrita] Siddhanta font rendering in Word broken after recent
>> update
>> To: samskrita <samskrita at googlegroups.com>, <
>> sanskrit-programmers at googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> Namaste,
>>
>>
>>
>> I use siddhanta font heavily in my work. I found that after a recent
>> MS-Word update, the Siddhanta font rendering is broken. More specifically,
>> the द्वित्वाक्षाणि are being displayed in their ह्रस्व forms. The
>> Adishila base font seems fine. But Adishila Dev Guru font also has the same
>> issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please see the screenshot below, each of the three bullet points are
>> rendered in Siddhanta, Adishila and Adishila Dev Guru fonts respectively.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Could anyone help me if there is a configuration that I may be missing?
>> Or do you see the same issue ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I use MS Word (Office-365), on a MAC.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>>
>> Viswanath.
>>
>>
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