Dear Dominik,
Do you have any opinion on Junicode or Latin Modern for transliteration
from Indic languages?
Best,
Nathan
On 6/13/15 6:21 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Dear Juergen,
Nice to see you here (I just read your 2011 I. Taurinensia paper last
night!).
Yes, you are right, some fonts just don't have the right characters in
them. Some of the font "pigeonholes" are empty. If you make the
character with a TeX macro (\.n) then usually things work even if the
font lacks the char, because TeX puts together an accent from one
place with the character from another. If the overdot accent char is
missing, then even TeX can't fix things.
I use the following at the start of my docs:
% XeLaTeX stuff:
% Normalize any residual Unicode combining accents,
% and write out error messages, if any:
%
\XeTeXinputnormalization=1
\tracinglostchars=1
\tracingonline=1
You can read up on what these do, but especially the \tracinglostchars
is helpful so that missing chars are flagged in the log file.
And for complete fonts, I find the SIL fonts, like Gentium, the
TeXGyre family, and the Brill font
<http://www.brill.com/about/brill-fonts> (that is free to use but not
for publishing with others than Brill without permission), are all
complete for Indic work. Oh, and also John Smith's fonts, at
http://Bombay.indology.info. DejaVu fonts are also very complete. I'm
sure there are many others: these are just my personal practical
observations without a systematic survey or testing.
Yesterday, Alessandro Graheli was telling me that the Murty Library
fonts <http://www.murtylibrary.com/design-and-typography.php> are
excellent; especially he praised their Devanagari, that is explicitly
modelled on the Nirnayasagara family. Fiona Ross was involved in
making the Murty fonts, and she is extremely experienced and
knowledgeable about Indian fonts. The Murty fonts are like the Brill,
you can use them freely, but if you want to publish a book with them,
you have to ask permission.
Best,
Dominik
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