[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/7 Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Neal Delmonico
> <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> FreeSerif is a nice looking Devanagari font, but it is
>> still not up to where it needs to be in order for me to use it
>> regularly.
>
> I hope I'm not wrong but the FreeSerif Devanagari glyphs seem to be
> derived from Lohit Devanagari (https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/).
>
Fedora has an old version that does not work. Current FreeSerif
contains the Velthuis glypghs.

> I have had problems with FreeSerif on LibreOffice also. IMHO it is

Have you tried the latest version from
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ or from TL 2012?

> better to use DejaVu for European scripts and Lohit family for Indic
> scripts. I am not saying that the Lohit family is perfect, but the
> maintainers are very responsive to bug reports. So you might try and
> see whether the Lohit fonts are better suited to your requirements.
>
> --
> Shriramana Sharma
>
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