From: Martin Fechner <fechner@bbaw.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Sanskrit font
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:27:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE44882.8030705@bbaw.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE44361.6060001@googlemail.com>
Am 22.06.2012 12:05, schrieb S Barmeier:
> On 06/22/2012 06:23 PM, Martin Fechner wrote:
>> Hey list,
>>
>> does anybody know an useable font for sanskrit writings another then
>> sanskrit2003.ttf? It is preferred to have the same range (with ligatures
>> etc.) as the sanskrit2003.ttf.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Martin
>
> It is hard to imagine that there is only one usable font for the
> devanagari script. Have you looked at
> http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html for example? Ligatures
> are an essential feature of devanagari, so I expect there is no font
> which doesn't support ligatures.
>
> I'd be interested to see whether you manage to successfully use
> devanagari with context. (I vaguely remember a mailing list posting that
> devanagari is not supported...?)
>
> Severin
Thank you for the link. We will have a look at this. Firstly we need the
font for a web publication, but maybe a use with context will follow.
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 9:23 Martin Fechner
2012-06-22 9:32 ` Hans Hagen
2012-06-22 10:40 ` Martin Fechner
2012-06-22 11:12 ` Hans Hagen
2012-06-22 10:05 ` S Barmeier
2012-06-22 10:27 ` Martin Fechner [this message]
2012-06-22 11:22 ` S Barmeier
2012-06-22 10:35 ` Hans Hagen
2012-06-22 20:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-06-22 23:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-06-22 18:07 ` Manfred Lotz
2012-06-25 10:13 ` Martin Fechner
2012-06-22 19:56 ` Daniel Stender
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