Thanks, Adheesh, I'll' give it a try.
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 11:51, adheesh sathaye <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hi Adriano, and all, > > It seems that the Velthuis orthography has been incorporated into the > Serif versions of the all-purpose “GNU Free Font” ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FreeFont), with more info available > here (https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/), and downloadable from > here: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ > > I downloaded and tested the file freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz > <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-otf-20120503.tar.gz>, and it > seems to show up OK on my Mac, though many ligatures are missing (e.g., Xr > series, where X stands for any consonant), so, not really satisfactory. > maybe there are others out there? > > On the CTAN archives, you can get the whole devanagari TeX/LaTeX package, > which includes all the Type 1 fonts used in the typesetting. > https://ctan.org/pkg/devanagari Maybe it can be figured out how to > upgrade these fonts to the OpenType standard, if you are looking to use > them outside of the TeX environment. > > For XeTeX, you can see Daniel Stender’s input maps here: > https://ctan.org/pkg/xetex-devanagari (which can be used to process IAST > as well as KH transliteration in addition to Velthuis’s scheme) > > There is also an excellent manual by Anshuman Pandey for using the package > in TeX/LaTeX from 2019 here: > http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/language/devanagari/velthuis/doc/manual.pdf > > > all best wishes, > Adheesh > > — > Adheesh Sathaye > University of British Columbia > > > > > On Jul 24, 2021, at 10:01, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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