2010/7/12 Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]>: > Dear Joachim, > > Some freely available Devanagari fonts in Unicode encoding are available > here: > > http://bombay.indology.info > http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/devanagari/ > > They're called Nakula and Sahadeva. > > Viramas occur in clusters, so to speak. Some documents don't use them > much at all, others a lot. It's a kind of typesetters' or editors' > decision. > Viramas in clusters make no problem, Unicode code points are already organized in such a way that it is possible to use the code points for sorting. Characters with nuktas, anusvara ans candrabindu violate the code point order but it is easy to handle them. What is problematic is a virama at the end of a word. Hindi contains a few words of Sanskrit origin where virama is written at the end, I know four of them: bhagavaan, mahaan, vaak, san. However, some people write these words without the virama.
> Best, > Dominik > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> Zdenek Wagner writes: >> >> Zdenek, great work!! >> >> > I have just released the first testing version of xindy modules for >> > Hindi and Marathi. It supports sorting both in Unicode and in a >> > transliteration. The work was started two years ago and took a long >> > time because I was busy with other projects. It is therefore based >> > upon xindy as released with TeX Live 2008. The package is available >> > from http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/xindy-devanagari/ >> >> What's your license for this work? >> >> GPL V2+, by chance? >> Then I could incorporate it in xindy's distribution. >> >> I have read the problem section in the docs, it doesn't sound earth >> shaking. >> >> How often does the viramas problem occur in practice, in your >> experience? >> >> Correct page ranges output may probably be solved by a different >> markup rule. But I'd need to set up a test environment here first. >> Where do I find such a "freely downloadable Devanagari font"? >> Are they TrueType or OpenType fonts? >> You wrote that you had a problem in selecting an editor. Did you ever >> try Eclipse for editing your Perl make-rules files? >> >> Best, >> Joachim >> >> -- >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Joachim Schrod Email: [email protected] >> xindy maintainer http://www.xindy.org/ >> Roedermark, Germany >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devnag-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general >> > > -- > After nearly 25 years, I'm phasing out this UCL email account. > Please switch over to using the email address [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Devnag-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz _______________________________________________ Devnag-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general
