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Support of U+0951, U+0952, U+A8F3, U+1CDA for all Indic languages #59

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Shreeshrii opened this issue Dec 26, 2014 · 15 comments
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@Shreeshrii
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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!

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pravins commented Feb 2, 2015

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)?

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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


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


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pravins commented Feb 2, 2015

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

Thanks!

ShreeDevi


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


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

I am using Lohit Tamil Classical font for this.

ShreeDevi


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


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@Shreeshrii
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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?

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pravins commented Feb 19, 2015

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

@Shreeshrii
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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.

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pravins commented Apr 11, 2016

Can you provide text for testing?

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

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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.

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Hi Praveen,

Any progress on this?

@Shreeshrii
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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.

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