2012/1/6 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>: > 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. >>>> Now I see what was meant byt the problems with FreeSans. I found a few more GPOS and GSUB bugs. I am preparing samples in order to write useful bug reports. It'll take some time. >>> >>> 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
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