2012/1/6 Steve White <stevan.wh...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Zdenek, > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2012/1/6 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>: >>> 2012/1/6 Steve White <stevan.wh...@googlemail.com>: >>>> >>> I did not know that FreeSans and FreeSerif contain contain Devanagari. >>> The fonts were installed with my Linux distribution thus I will try to >>> make some tests. >>> >> >> FreeSans looks weli in my computer but FreeSerif is totally broken, >> probably all the GPOS tables for Devanagari are missing. However, my >> Linux is very old, I will try to find a new version of the fonts >> > I see it now. > > Please submit a bug report, explaining Devanagari in Serif has > inadequate look-ups, and compare it to FreeSans. > (They would be GSUB tables, by the way.) > In the meantime I found that the font came with TeX Live, not with Linux. Anyway, I have downloaded the latest version and will try it. As I see it now, I think that both GSUB and GPOS tables are missing.
> It's amazing I missed this so long, but I don't have many tests for > Devanagari/ > There is a single lookup in Serif for that script with a single > ligature. I remember wondering about that single glyph, but it had a > funny name, and maybe I never researched it. > I don't see any other glyphs for ligatures for the range. It looks bad. > > It may be the lookups were inserted but somehow deleted. I'll check. > Otherwise, I may have to delete the Devanagari range from FreeSerif. > > The story is: almost a decade ago, there was a period of enthusiastic > addition to FreeFont, unfortunately with limited guidelines. Several > non-functional ranges were included. We have since cleaned up most of > these problems, but clearly some remain. > > The only other possibility is that I find the source for this range, > and it includes the ligated glyphs already. Then it is just a matter > of a *couple of weeks* of work. Otherwise I'll be forced to delete > the range in Serif. > >> Before reporting I would like to ask one question. In all Devanagari >> fonts I have ever seen the long independent A (U+0906) looks >> graphicaly as if short independent A (U+0905) was followed by long A >> matra (U+093E). In FrreSerif and FreeSans the vertical stems in the >> long independent A are too close to each other. When looking to the >> text it is not well readable. Is this just my feeling or should I >> report it as a bug? >> > Please report that as a separate bug. > > If you could provide me an image of text you judge to be better, with > the same text encoded in Unicode, that would be great! > I can easily fix such an individual problem if the range is otherwise working. > I have enough Hindi texts for testing it will be pleasure for me to help. > Thanks hugely! > >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:59 AM, bhutex <bhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> 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। >>>>> >> >> >> -- >> Zdeněk Wagner >> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
