From: S Barmeier <severinbarmeier@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit font
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:22:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE4557D.2050903@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE44882.8030705@bbaw.de>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 11:22 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
2012-06-22 11:22 ` S Barmeier [this message]
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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