2012/9/9 Steve White <stevan.wh...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Zdenek, > > I'm glad you like the looks of Sanskrit in FreeSerif! > And I like the looks of Hindi in both FreeSans and FreeSerif. As a matter of fact, I use them regularly for Hindi texts and I made them as default sans and serif fonts in my web browsers. My teacher of Hindi likes them too but I will have to help her installing them, her computer skill are not so good.
> 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 -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
