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Lohit fonts family project to supporting Indian scripts.
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Support of U+0951, U+0952, U+A8F3, U+1CDA for all Indic languages #59

Open Shreeshrii opened 9 years ago

Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

I am using the Lohit Indic fonts for transliteration of sanskrit texts with vedic accents in various Indic scripts. Please see http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/bhuusuuktam.html?lang=sa as an example.

I would appreciate if you can add support for U+0951, U+0952, U+A8F3, U+1CDA in all Indic languages.

Thanks!

pravins commented 9 years ago

We do have U+0951, U+0952, U+A8F3 in Lohit Devanagari font. Only U+1CDA is missing. Do we really need this in all Lohit fonts (Assamese, Bengali..Tamil, Telugu)?

Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

Please see http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/ganapatiaccent.html?lang=sa and the language switching bar on top.

Many of the suktas linked from http://sanskritdocuments.org/svara use all four of these vedic accents.

Currently I am using SakalaBharati font followed by Siddhanta in the font-family. This is the best combination I could work out. Though, as you will see this also breaks for U+1CDA

It would be good if you can support this. You may also want to consider an additional complete Lohit Indic font on the lines of SakalaBharati so that just by downloading one font all Indian scripts can be supported and all scripts are relatively sized etc.

​I was requesting support for all 4 of these accents in all Indian fonts or in one complete Indic range font (not just devanagari).

Thanks!​

ShreeDevi

भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Pravin Satpute notifications@github.com wrote:

We do have U+0951, U+0952, U+A8F3 in Lohit Devanagari font. Only U+1CDA is missing. Do we really need this in all Lohit fonts (Assamese, Bengali..Tamil, Telugu)?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/59#issuecomment-72434561.

pravins commented 9 years ago
  1. Pan Indic Lohit font is in plan. But might take long time :(
  2. May be for now we can try adding these 4 characters in all script fonts.
Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

OK, will be good to see these supported in all script fonts. Please let me know when the new version is released.

Thanks!

ShreeDevi

भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Pravin Satpute notifications@github.com wrote:

  1. Pan Indic Lohit font is in plan. But might take long time :(
  2. May be for now we can try adding these 4 characters in all script fonts.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/59#issuecomment-72445523.

Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

Please see http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/s-sukta-accent.html?lang=ta

I am using Lohit Tamil Classical font for this.

ShreeDevi

भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:35 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar shreeshrii@gmail.com wrote:

OK, will be good to see these supported in all script fonts. Please let me know when the new version is released.

Thanks!

ShreeDevi

भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Pravin Satpute notifications@github.com wrote:

  1. Pan Indic Lohit font is in plan. But might take long time :(
  2. May be for now we can try adding these 4 characters in all script fonts.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/59#issuecomment-72445523.

Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

FYI - Fonts that provide some support for vedic accents

https://sites.google.com/site/bhashaime/Goda-and-GodaGr-Kannada-Vedic-fonts-with-Taittiriya--Sama-Svaras

https://sites.google.com/site/bhashaime/Vagisha-and-VagishaGr-Kannada-Vedic-Fonts-with-Taittiriya-and-Sama-Svaras

https://sites.google.com/site/bhashaime/Pothana2000Vedic--Telugu-Vedic-Font

Shreeshrii commented 9 years ago

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798871

"Pravin Satpute 2012-07-11 01:54:23 EDT Wow, thats nice.

I am thinking to release Lohit Vedic rather than making Lohit Devanagari to much bulky.

Reasoning behind it 1) Vedic requires extra ascent and descent space. It will increase line spacing. 2) Regular Devanagari users does not required Vedic characters. 3) Having specific font for Vedic will give more flexibility to do changes.

Let me know your opinion on same. Discussion topic on Lohit devel actually."

Is there a Lohit Vedic Devanagari font?

pravins commented 9 years ago

It is in plan. Basic idea is Rename Lohit Devanagari to Lohit Vedic and include glyphs designed by Shriramana Sharma into it.

Shreeshrii commented 8 years ago

Hi Pravin, any update on this.

Please see http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_veda/narayanasukta.html?lang=ta The rendering seems to have worsened when there is combination of Indian regional text and the vedic accents.

I am using Tamil Classical font for the webpage.

Shreeshrii commented 8 years ago

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pravins commented 8 years ago

Can you provide text for testing?

Shreeshrii commented 8 years ago

Sample file with narayana sukta in multiple scripts attached - please let me know if you need something in different format. lohit-accent-test.txt

Shreeshrii commented 8 years ago

http://cikitsa.blogspot.in/2014/12/gnu-freefont-fonts-and-xelatex.html

Please see above for a link to the development version of freefont which supports many scripts.

Shreeshrii commented 8 years ago

Hi Praveen,

Any progress on this?

Shreeshrii commented 6 years ago

May be for now we can try adding these 4 characters in all script fonts.

Hi Praveen, Any update on this.

It would be specially useful to have this for Bengali, Odia and Malayalam, since there are no alternative fonts (ASAIK) which support these accents.