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

[Shreeshrii]

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]

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]

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

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Pravin Satpute [email protected] 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]

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]

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

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Pravin Satpute [email protected] 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]

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

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:35 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar [email protected] 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

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

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Pravin Satpute [email protected] 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]

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]

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]

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

[Shreeshrii]

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]

[pravins]

Can you provide text for testing?

[Shreeshrii]

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]

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]

Hi Praveen,

Any progress on this?

[Shreeshrii]

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.