That was exactly my doubt, Tim, but my lack of technical knowledge blurred my words.
Can it be used in xelatex with polyglossia? b.w. Adriano Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano Língua e Literatura Sânscrita DLCV/FFLCH-USP Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil Em sáb., 24 de jul. de 2021 às 08:40, Lubin, Tim <[email protected]> escreveu: > Dear Adriano, > > > > As far as I understand, your problem is that the Velthuis “font” > <https://ctan.org/tex-archive/language/devanagari/velthuis/?lang=en> does > not exist as a ttf or otf font, which would indeed be usable across > platforms like other such fonts, but rather it is a metafont > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont> native to the TeX environment, > and can only be used in TeX. > > > > Best, > Tim > > _________________________________________ > Timothy Lubin > Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law > 204 Tucker Hall > Washington and Lee University > Lexington, Virginia 24450 > > American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 2020–21 > National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, 2020–21 > > https://lubin.academic.wlu.edu/ > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flubin.academic.wlu.edu%2F&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KGZJIHllkEOJZN9s48rB6YkrExmYG1owecyuPn%2FuR%2Bg%3D&reserved=0> > > http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwlu.academia.edu%2FTimothyLubin&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=etrMzh0RHx8819v5PH6KeTgeHQpeNVqeSUP62IDVn9c%3D&reserved=0> > > https://ssrn.com/author=930949 > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssrn.com%2Fauthor%3D930949&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521888642%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=F9JfpSkLrSfrImfMeIXPIjpUIVYIYcwfbvm8dqcxedE%3D&reserved=0> > https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdharma.hypotheses.org%2Fpeople%2Flubin-timothy&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C118620c8eb3b4049237308d886c1df18%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637407514521898628%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sncUovdIh9wA0ezo8n2xpYpllaMKMetH86tMA6Jtg9A%3D&reserved=0> > > > > > > > > *From: *INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of > INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *Adriano Aprigliano <[email protected]> > *Date: *Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 6:31 AM > *To: *Michael <[email protected]> > *Cc: *INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux > > > > Thank you, Michael, > > > > I'm aware of that. > > > > The problem is that this one is a font for Latex, part of a specific > package and I don't know how to use it, for example, in common text editors > like libreoffice, word, etc. > > > > b.r. > > Adriano > > > > Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano > > Língua e Literatura Sânscrita > > DLCV/FFLCH-USP > > Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900 > > Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil > > > > > > > > Em sex., 23 de jul. de 2021 às 23:39, Michael <[email protected]> escreveu: > > Dear Adriano, > > Fonts are not specific to operating systems. I have moved from MacOS to > Linux to BSD over the course of the past 15 years, and I have never had a > font that worked on one not work on another operating system. > > I hope that helps, > > Michael Slouber > > > > On 7/23/21 8:25 AM, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > Does anyone know if Velthuis nagari font is available as a unicode font > for linux? > > > > Best regards > > Adriano > > > > > > > > Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano > > Língua e Literatura Sânscrita > > DLCV/FFLCH-USP > > Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900 > > Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > INDOLOGY mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flist.indology.info%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Findology&data=04%7C01%7Clubint%40wlu.edu%7C15c123d5b927465f0cba08d94e8e417a%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637627195160770367%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=rc1RMtn114rvUxoJWf%2BsAGPQYIZeh%2BYRdpDfRfHBjRA%3D&reserved=0> > >
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