From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77043 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Fechner Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Sanskrit font Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:27:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE44882.8030705@bbaw.de> References: <4FE4399D.6080004@bbaw.de> <4FE44361.6060001@googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340360646 20314 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 10:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:24:06 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 22 12:24:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Si120-0005pM-Iu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208A6101EB; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:24:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id NVUIJM9VZmqw; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD63101EC; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DEC101EC for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id dBhP-6aHuxHw for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3742101EB for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.bbaw.de (mail.bbaw.de [194.95.188.6]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q5MANsW9008957 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:55 +0200 Original-Received: from mailhub.bbaw.de (unknown [192.168.4.1]) by mail.bbaw.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24BC4A80D6 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mailhub.bbaw.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 6DCBB93866; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.bbaw.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FC393871 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailhub.bbaw.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (AvMailGate-2.1.4-7) id 20072-fFOtls; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.197] (unknown [192.168.1.197]) by mailhub.bbaw.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DFD93867 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:52 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FE44361.6060001@googlemail.com> X-AntiVirus: checked by Avira MailGate (version: 2.1.4-7; AVE: 7.9.10.68; VDF: 7.11.33.182; host: mailhub); id=20072-fFOtls X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=194.95.188.6; country=DE; region=16; city=Berlin; latitude=52.5167; longitude=13.4000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5167,13.4000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VHpmnSN2 - b15ed23eccc1 - 20120622 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77043 Archived-At: 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. 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