Following Unicode free fonts are available for Hindi/Devnagari : Akshar Unicode - not beautiful Chandas - Full font, not only devnagari but all characters needed for typesetting vedas etc. Uttara - Probably a variant of Chandas Nakula and Sahedava - Twin fonts FreeSans - it has Devnagari but not fully working for example फ्र etc. are not coming properly Osha - Guruma - Siddhanta - It has variants like Siddhanta 1, Siddhanta 2, Chakravat, Chakravat 2 Calcutta , Calcutta1, Calcutta 2, Vyakaran and Nepali Sanskrit2003 AA-NagariShri
In addition some fonts are available on the Govt. of India's Ministry of Information Technology website (around 50 fonts (including Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)) fromC-DAC etc. organizations. But these fonts also have some problem Just like FreeSans. The fonts mentioned above (for dictionary type work) are sufficient. C-DAC fonts are mostly decorative fonts. -- Happy TeXing The BHU TeX Group क्या आप यह देख पा रहें हैं। इस का मतलब आप का कम्प्यूटर यूनीकोड को समझती है। देर किस बात की हिन्दी मे चिठ्ठियां लिखिये।
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