Hi!
I saw a PDF describing Chinese support in ConTeXt. It looks beautiful.
Anyone has attempted to write Sanskrit (both western transliteration as well as Devanagari script) in ConTeXt?
What is required to provide such support?
Sincerely, Gour
At 09:18 AM 11/29/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Hi!
I saw a PDF describing Chinese support in ConTeXt. It looks beautiful.
Anyone has attempted to write Sanskrit (both western transliteration as well as Devanagari script) in ConTeXt?
What is required to provide such support?
Where can i find some info about sanskrit? (and fonts)
Hans
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Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
Hello Hans!
Thank you very much for your reply.
Where can i find some info about sanskrit? (and fonts)
I hope the following url will be of some help:
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/devanagari.html
Pls. tell me if you need more info, and I'll also try to find some other resources.
Sincerely, Gour
Hi Sanskrit users,
At tug 2002 there was a talk by Karel Piska about some fonts, that i now recognize as the ones you're talking about -)
Can you take a look at:
http://www-hep2.fzu.cz/~piska/indic/fonts/type1/indic/
and see what we can use?
(Karel is doing quite impressive conversions of fonts to type 1 and spends a lot of time on details)
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Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
Can you take a look at:
http://www-hep2.fzu.cz/~piska/indic/fonts/type1/indic/
and see what we can use?
Well, I definitely cannot qualify as Sanskrit user, at least not for Devanagari script (I'm only familiar with Western transliteration), but I took a look on one of the fonts and loaded in into pfaedit.
As far as I can see it's a TeX font with custom encoding ie. Devanagari letters are not on their Unicode positions.
I'm not an expert in changing font encodings, so I don't know whether it's possible, or at least, how much work it takes to transform the font into Unicode font.
OTOH, I have another Sanskrit font which I downloaded few days ago. It's a full Unicode font and it has Devanagari letters on their proper places.
So, I assume we need a font with the Unicode encoding (if we are going utf-8 path), but let the other experts (like Richard) tell their opinion.
Sincerely, Gour
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:15:51PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 09:18 AM 11/29/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Hi!
I saw a PDF describing Chinese support in ConTeXt. It looks beautiful.
Anyone has attempted to write Sanskrit (both western transliteration as well as Devanagari script) in ConTeXt?
What is required to provide such support?
Where can i find some info about sanskrit? (and fonts)
Hans
Thank you for your interest! Support for devanagari and co. would be of great use to a good number of Indologists and Buddhologists.
You can find links to most of the CTAN docs on my homepage:
http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/biblio/biblio.html
Output of the Type 1 version Frans Velthuis' Devanagari fonts for TeX is at:
http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/bca_text/bca_text.html
Regards,
Richard Mahoney
At 05:56 AM 11/30/2002 +1300, you wrote:
Output of the Type 1 version Frans Velthuis' Devanagari fonts for TeX is at:
http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/bca_text/bca_text.html
ok, printing,
the main steps are:
(1) make a simple example text to work with (2) provide the fonts needed (3) determins language dependent things (4) make sure al the nice stuff works with it
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