Hi Zdenek, I'm glad you like the looks of Sanskrit in FreeSerif!
Regarding Sanskrit in FreeSans: You're right, it is incomplete. I now remember, had started implementing Sanskrit there, but was interrupted. I hope to push that effort forward in the next release. I also see one or two glitches regarding mark placement in FreeSerif. I'll work with you guys off-line on those. Thanks for your support! On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/9/9 Steve White <stevan.wh...@googlemail.com>: >> I finally got Neal's examples working, too. (The problem was, I had >> altered the header tex file he provided, so that it would run with my >> set of fonts, but had unwittingly also cut out one instance of >> RomDev). The process is: obtain the RomDev.map file, compile it with >> 'teckit_compile -u RomDev.map', place the resulting RomDev.tec file in >> the same directory as the .tex files. The xelatex the main tex file. >> >> The result is pretty to my eyes; the conjuncts are working, as near as >> I can tell. >> >> Concerning Zdenek's comments: >> >> The Devanagari feature lookup tables in FreeSerif are arranged so that >> modern forms are default, and the more extensive Sanskrit forms must >> be turned on by explicitly specifying Sanskrit as the text language. >> (It is safest always to specify the language. Unfortunately, xelatex >> complains very confusingly if no tables are explicitly turned on by >> the specified language.) >> >> FreeSans is indeed derived from Gargi, but it has been extensively >> modified. It (is intended to) have complete support for Hindi and >> Sanskrit, as well as Marathi. If any conjuncts in FreeSerif are >> missing in FreeSans, it is a bug. >> > Hindi support is complete, I have verified it on several Hindi texts, > displayed all conjuncts separately and since it was released used in > several other Hindi texts. I have just tried to reprocess Neal's > sample with FreeSans and indeed ligatures are missing, kta, pta, dga > and others. I hope you still have the sample table with all conjuncts > from the Velthuis manual. This will help you to find what is missing. > If you make the same sample as you sent me many times during > development, I will review it quickly and send the feedback. > > -- > 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
