Hi all,
this message is slightly off topic but it may interest you. A few days
ago version 20120503 of GNU FreeFont was released. This (OpenType as
well as TrueType) version contains working Devanagari. FreeSans is
based on Gargi with bugs fixed and positions of matras fine-tuned (and
changes were reported back to the Gargi developers), FreeSerif is
based on Velthuis fonts. Both fonts contain the Indian rupee sign. In
XeLaTeX, conjuncts in FreeSerif can be switched on/off according to
the language, try the word shakti in this file:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit]{FreeSerif}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
Sanskrit = शक्ति, {\addfontfeatures{Language=Hindi} Hindi = शक्ति}
\end{document}
Unfortunatelly, such switching is not supported by the web browsers.
My sample can be found at
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/ (the page contains
embedded GNU FreeFont) including the link to the official web page
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
Hopefully the font will soon appear in TeX Live and (some) Linux
distributions. If you install it independently, be sure that you do
not have font conflicts.
--
Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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