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In addition you can access a variety of texts, fonts and programs likely to be of interest to Indologists.
High-quality OpenType "IndUni" fonts
are now available that allow the
representation of Indian-language (and similar) material in
Roman script using the Unicode character set. These fonts contain
all the accented characters that Indologists are likely to need, as
well as all common European accented characters. They replace
the previous poorer-quality TrueType fonts that bore the same names.
June 2007: at the request of Linotype, I have rebuilt the IndUni fonts under new names, to avoid clashes with names on which Linotype hold a trademark.
Two new Devanagari
fonts are now available.
Nakula and Sahadeva are "twin" Devanagari fonts, which have been
developed by IMRC, India, for the University of Cambridge. They are
intended for use with the program Vinayaka, which will allow
Sanskrit text to be stored in a manner that preserves those word
divisions which are hidden by sandhi or by the script. However,
Vinayaka is still under development, and the fonts can be used with
other software, so I am releasing them separately in advance of the
completion of the Vinayaka project. Both fonts are
TrueType/OpenType, and are Unicode compliant. Both contain all the
conjuncts and other ligatures (including Vedic accents) likely to be
needed by Sanskritists. Nakula follows the Bombay style of
Devanagari, with rounded glyphs and little thin/thick variation.
Sahadeva is in the Calcutta style, with more angular glyphs and
greater contrast between thin and thick strokes. The actual shapes
of some of the glyphs (e.g. initial "a", retroflex "n") also differ
according to the style of the font.
John Smith can be contacted as jds10@cam.ac.uk
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