Thanks, Tim, I'll need some time to process all that, since I'm but a beginner in xelatex, who have also forgotten all latex I learned more than 10 years ago.
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 sáb., 24 de jul. de 2021 às 12:04, Lubin, Tim <[email protected]> escreveu: > Adriano, I had to deal with this same problem recently, and I learned that > XeLaTeX does not use (and apparently cannot be made to use dev.sty, which > is the Velthuis macro package. So all commands that are Velthuis-specific > and defined in dev.sty or required for devnag.exe (e.g., @hyphen and \dn) > are no longer needed or wanted. > > > > The good news is that XeLaTeX with Polyglossia can read the Velthuis > transliteration fine, but until your query today, I was not aware of any > TTF font that mimicked the Velthuis metafont closely. Sanskrit2003 came > most highly recommended, but I still missed the Velthuis look. I would say > that Arial Unicode MS is pretty satisfactory as a near-match: > > Velthuis metafont: > > Arial Unicode MS ttf: > > I did also FreeFontSerif, which in its Devanagari range is modeled on > Velthuis. It looks pretty close. It is available for free download here: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ > > I installed all the fonts in what seemed like the latest folder: > > [image: [ ]] > > freefont-ttf-20120503.zip > <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip> > > 2012-05-03 09:42 > > 5.8M > > > > I haven’t yet tried them out on in XeLaTeX, but in Word it failed to > execute a basic conjunct like g+r : > > I found adapting files written for use with the Velthuis package to > Unicode in XeLaTeX a bit tricky, but if you contact me off-list I can > provide details. > > > > 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: *Adriano Aprigliano <[email protected]> > *Date: *Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 10:01 AM > *To: *"Lubin, Tim" <[email protected]> > *Cc: *Michael <[email protected]>, INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Velthuis nagari font for linux > > > > 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://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fctan.org%2Ftex-archive%2Flanguage%2Fdevanagari%2Fvelthuis%2F%3Flang%3Den&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087397736%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=YFb%2Fryo%2F5TApzJFgNqu6JlATik1jpQQL%2BuNUniVEfvk%3D&reserved=0> > 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://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMetafont&data=04%7C01%7CLubinT%40wlu.edu%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087402712%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=yS8XYIvSD53qDNKSu3%2BDSm0vo1%2FxBimgGACb%2BEOhtp0%3D&reserved=0> > 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%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087407693%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=7f%2Fs9mt3Y0cMfzaTw1R0glRKTbWmH1Bp1%2FQyvYj9BQk%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%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087412671%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=fm%2BdAGTc77ADV2i4c75XeyoEZ%2BzZC4O4BcMuBFKFal8%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%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087417646%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2BXMN8Nm93wftSgWbuzz413uyB3R1oUBZzYU2IVy6R0o%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%7C8ef94f87af814682b14d08d94eab935e%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C1%7C637627321087422629%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=W3%2B8TGNCxoqab6d%2B8O3iWiiUA2AQGNKMXLju0QOPubI%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. 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