2012/9/7 Steve White <stevan.wh...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Neal, > > If there are real problems, I would like to try to fix them. > > Would you please send me, all files for a test using FreeSerif only, > with the command line you use to build it? (I tried xelatex on the > test.tex file and the header file you posted, but I had to make a lot > of changes just to get it to tex.) > Hi Neal,
I would also like to see a small self-contained sample. Your file inputs header.tex but it is not included. I fetched some header from one of your earlier posts but it tries to load a lot of fonts that I do not have and after 5 minutes creates half page of transliterated text but nothing in Devanagari. > Thanks! > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Neal Delmonico <ndelmon...@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: >> I am happy to say that I finally got it working. Those Freefonts were >> installed on my computer no less than four times (not counting texlive). >> Moodle installed them as did Joomla. I had installed them from the >> ports collection and apparently the system installed them, or perhaps it >> was X-windows. Anyway, I found them with the X-11 fonts. When I got >> them all removed XeLaTeX could no longer find FreeSerif. I don't know >> why the Texlive installation could not find fonts it had installed. >> Anyway, I downloaded the most recent version of the Freefonts and placed >> them in the X-11 font directory, ran all the programs so that X could >> find them and voila! suddenly XeLaTeX could find them too. Sadly, I see >> that FreeSerif does not handle some of the common conjuncts well. >> Guttural n and g do not combine, nor do d and g, for instance. Also the >> Devanagari was replaced by little empty boxes in my page headings Where >> I put the Sanskrit titles of the chapters along with their English >> translations. Nakula and Sahadeva and even Sanskrit 2003 could all do >> those things. FreeSerif is a nice looking Devanagari font, but it is >> still not up to where it needs to be in order for me to use it >> regularly. >> >> Thanks for your help, everyone. >> >> Best >> >> Neal >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> 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
