[XeTeX] [INDOLOGY] {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: Issues with Sanskrit 2003 font

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I've done some more Devanagari font testing, and the results can be viewed
here
<https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xrWfqTJ9Xjo/WUXAcgjxhVI/AAAAAAAApRA/36wC0n2gjlQQB9bNDnTGGPjD13veSgoXQCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2017-06-17%2B17-48-08.png>.


The TeX code that produced this is in my blog
<https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2017/06/expanded-devanagari-font-comparison.html>
.

Of the fonts tried out, only Sanskrit 2003, Murty Sanskrit, and Shobhika do
the right things with *ṣaṭtriṃśad*.

Best,
Dominik


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On 17 June 2017 at 09:39, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Vikram,
>
> Your plan to work on refining and expanding Sanskrit 2003 is excellent!
> Since funding is needed, I recommend you consider a crowd-funding
> initiative. That would fit the situation very well, allowing people to
> contribute in a structured and transparent manner, and avoiding many legal
> and financial problems.
>
> Please, please give the font a new name, when your work is released. Even
> if it's just Sanskrit 2003A.
>
> About the design of Sanskrit 2003, I still like the font best, I think,
> amongst the many Devanagaris available today.  Murty Sanskrit is my second
> choice, and I would add that Murty Sanskrit looks better on paper than on
> the screen.
>
> However, about Sanskrit 2003, I find it a little compressed,
> horizontally.  The document processing system I use, TeX, allows me to
> tweak that as I wish, and I have found that expanding Sanskrit 2003 by 8%
> horizontally gives a result that is more pleasing to my eye.  It's a
> personal thing, but perhaps worth thinking about.
>
> Here are some samples <https://tinyurl.com/y96ufrog> of Sanskrit 2003
> normal and stretched, with some other faces for comparison.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
>
>
> ​
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
> ​,​
>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ​,​
>
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> ​,​
> University of Alberta, Canada
> ​.​
>
> South Asia at the U of A:
>
> ​sas.ualberta.ca​
> ​​
>
>
> On 15 June 2017 at 13:51, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Hello Vikram,
>>
>>      This is a wonderful news.  Having done some font-designing myself, I
>> know how time-consuming and complicated this work is.  I hope your effort
>> is successful and produces an improved version of Sanskrit 2003, with
>> light, bold and italic versions.  Please keep us posted about availability
>> of these new versions.  With best wishes,
>>
>> Madhav Deshpande
>> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Vikram Iyer <vikram85.iyer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>                     I am writing this as I am collaborating with a
>>> typography expert to create a better version of Sanskrit 2003 free for all
>>> with support for light weight and several ligature upgrades. As with any
>>> activity of this scale funds are required to be able to keep the project
>>> going. If anyone is willing to contribute financially please get in touch
>>> with me.
>>>
>>>
>>>                      A sample version of the upgraded font is attached
>>> below.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5PUqOJ81id8/WUKWHI9KrBI/AAAAAAAAK_U/LuRRxXRlmbw-OagEfS1N2vzoPB594qKEgCLcBGAs/s1600/Sanskrit%2BBold%252BFinetuned%252BLight.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 8 June 2017 19:32:10 UTC+5:30, Madhav Deshpande wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>>      I have been using the Sanskrit 2003 unicode Devanagari font for
>>>> some time, and have noticed that for some characters, the anusvāra almost
>>>> merges with characters like sign for short "i".  Here are a few sample
>>>> lines:
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>      Am I alone in seeing these problems, or is this happening only on
>>>> Mac computers, and not on Windows?  I have written to Omkarananda Ashram
>>>> about this and I am hoping to hear from them.
>>>>     If someone has a solution to this font problem, I would appreciate
>>>> hearing it.
>>>>
>>>> Madhav Deshpande
>>>> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>>>>
>>>>
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