Sanskrit font

Sanskrit font

[Martin Fechner]

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
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Hans Hagen]

On 22-6-2012 11:23, 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.

There will be a talk at the ntg meeting:

http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/bijeen49.html

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Re: Sanskrit font

[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
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Martin Fechner]

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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Re: Sanskrit font

[Hans Hagen]

On 22-6-2012 12:05, S Barmeier wrote:
> 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...?)

Specs .. examples ... etc needed .. some day I'll have a go at it (need 
time and a good excuse).

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Re: Sanskrit font

[Martin Fechner]

Am 22.06.2012 11:32, schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 22-6-2012 11:23, 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.
>
> There will be a talk at the ntg meeting:
>
> http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/bijeen49.html
>
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And I thought the use of sanskrit were a very special subject.. The talk 
about xml-databases also sounds very interesting. Will there be a 
summary of the talks?
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Hans Hagen]

On 22-6-2012 12:40, Martin Fechner wrote:
> Am 22.06.2012 11:32, schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 22-6-2012 11:23, 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.
>>
>> There will be a talk at the ntg meeting:
>>
>> http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/bijeen49.html
>>
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>>
>>
>
> And I thought the use of sanskrit were a very special subject.. The talk
> about xml-databases also sounds very interesting. Will there be a
> summary of the talks?

maybe articles in the ntg maps at some point

Hans

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Re: Sanskrit font

[S Barmeier]

On 06/22/2012 07:27 PM, Martin Fechner wrote:
> 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

If you can't find a nice font for devanagari, you could always switch to
another script ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phrase_sanskrit.png

Tibetan looks funky.

Severin
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Manfred Lotz]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:23:41 +0200
Martin Fechner <fechner@bbaw.de> 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.
> 

Of course, there are others beside Sanskrit2003 which BTW, I like very
much.


Siddhanta from Mihail Bayaryn which IIRC is a successor of his Chandas
font is a very nice one;
http://svayambhava.blogspot.de/p/siddhanta-devanagariunicode-open-type.html


There are 1 or 2 more good Sanskrit fonts. But I would have to search
for them.



-- 
Manfred


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Re: Sanskrit font

[Daniel Stender]

A beautiful Devanagari font also is Santipur, cf:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2372616/SantipurOT.ttf

Greetings,
Daniel Stender

On 22.06.2012 11:23, 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

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Re: Sanskrit font

[Aditya Mahajan]

> 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...?)

ConTeXt MkIV does not have support for indic opentype features, but indic 
scripts work fine with xetex backend.

Aditya
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >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...?)
> 
> ConTeXt MkIV does not have support for indic opentype features, but
> indic scripts work fine with xetex backend.

Sans ICU bugs...

Regards,
 Khaled
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Re: Sanskrit font

[Martin Fechner]

Am 22.06.2012 20:07, schrieb Manfred Lotz:
> Siddhanta from Mihail Bayaryn which IIRC is a successor of his Chandas
> font is a very nice one;
> http://svayambhava.blogspot.de/p/siddhanta-devanagariunicode-open-type.html
>

Thank you all for the links.

Greetings, Martin
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