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[126.65.242.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mq8sm14373086pbb.64.2012.06.22.04.22.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:22:39 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FE44882.8030705@bbaw.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.160.41; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06HpnmEET - 65196cf42454 - 20120622 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 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:77049 Archived-At: 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. 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