Yes! People here still use ASCII hack font till Adobe Apps will natively support Devanagari Unicode. Every place where digital Devanagari is to be used, ASCII hack font are used. Unicode font are only for some tech- enthusiasts and Indologist. d On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>wrote:
> On 9/25/2010 12:00 PM, Ujjwol Lamichhane wrote: > >> Guys! I have access to that font(DV-TTSurekh-Normal). As far as I know >> it is said that font is made in 1996-97. And it in no way a Unicode >> OpenType Font. It is an ASCII hack font for Devanagari. The Devanagari >> glyph are draw in latin names. So, for example when you type a you will >> get क as glyph of a. So just telling fontspec the font name will not >> work of that font as I know. >> > > Thanks--I guess that's not surprising. Well into the 2000s, most Hindi web > pages used proprietary 8-bit encodings (not even ISCII, which was at least > documented). > > -- > Mike Maxwell > maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu > "A library is the best possible imitation, by human beings, > of a divine mind, where the whole universe is viewed and > understood at the same time... we have invented libraries > because we know that we do not have divine powers, but we > try to do our best to imitate them." --Umberto Eco > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Ujjwol Lamichhane http://ujjwol.com.np/
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