Fwd: RE: [Indic-computing-users] Narada and Sivaram fonts for Sanskrit

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 --- Mita <mi...@au...> wrote: > From: "Mita" <mi...@au...>
> To: "'Alok Kumar'" <al...@ya...>
> Subject: RE: [Indic-computing-users] Narada and Sivaram fonts for Sanskrit
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:02:49 +0530
> 
> Hi Alok and others,
>  
> Thanks for the response :- But, the objective is simply to read and
> print Sanskrit question papers using those two fonts; the document
> doesn't display correctly because their system doesn't have them...
> Otherwise the SanskritNew font is pretty adequate to store texts
> electronically.will try Raghu too.
>  
> While searching for them, (still haven't found them tho), I came across
> a wonderful page giving links to a whole lot of indic fonts; please try
> this wonderful compilation :-
>  
> 1.        <http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/indic.html> Indic language fonts
> 
> 
> Indic language font links, compiled by Luc Devroye.
> cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/indic.html
> or
>  
> http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/index.html
> http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html
>  
> Another question :-
> Is there anybody on this list who has worked with Adobe Indesign laying
> out any indic documents?  Would like to get in touch with you off list.
> We are facing a real problem laying out our book on Spoken Tamil which
> includes diacritics.  
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Mita
> For Auroville Language Lab
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alok Kumar [mailto:al...@ya...] 
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:49 AM
> To: mi...@au...
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Narada and Sivaram fonts for
> Sanskrit
>  
>  --- Mita <mi...@au...> wrote: > Hello everybody,
> > Does anybody know where I could download (hopefully for free) the
> > "Narada" and "sivaram" fonts for Sanskrit.  One of the Kendriay
> > Vidyalayas of Pondy has received Model Question Papers for Sanskrit (I
> > think from NCERT) which are in Narada, Sivaram and Shreelipi fonts.  I
> > managed to locate Shreelipi but unfortunately it is not free.I'm
> hoping
> > Narada and Sivaram are.
> > Still searching, but if anybody has the links and can send them, that
> > would be great
>  
> Mita,
> I think you should be more interested in finding out whether the fonts
> are
> unicode encoded or not, particularly if your objective is to store text
> electronically. The fonts may look good but it there's no point having
> them if
> they are not displayable using a standard format.
> Try http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download for the Raghu font.
>  
> Alok  
>  
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