[INDOLOGY] Correction and updates of Nirnay Sagar Fonts

Krishnaprasad G krishnaprasadah.g at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 03:22:15 UTC 2018


Thanks, everyone for supporting me giving feedbacks.

You can download from here.
https://yadi.sk/d/rDIogm1J3WjKp4

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 8:43 AM Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dominink Wujastyk wrote:
>
>>  modern font technology can help.  OpenType includes some "alternates" or
>> "contextual alternates" features that allow the user (or auto-select) to
>> select from multiple versions of a glyph.  But I'm sure you know this.  And
>> it's only certain advanced text-setting programs like TeX that allow one to
>> access such features easily (e.g., through fontspec
>> <https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec?lang=en>, manual part IV).
>>
>
> I use the FontCreator program from Hi-Logic which allows you to create
> open type "contextual features".  I've used this feature. I use the
> professional product which retails for $199.00 but their website says that
> the Home edition for $79.00 also has this feature (but the home edition
> cannot be used for commercial purposes).  The program only works on windows.
>
>
>>
>> Such questions make me wish to consult Naik's classic work *Typography
>> of Devanagari <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6241715>* (3 vols, 1971 rev.
>> ed.), but I've never had access to a copy of this rare publication.
>>
>
> I have this book. (Unfortunately its in storage in New York). Its been 20
> years since I looked at it but I recall it was absolutely fascinating.  As
> I recall  one volume gives examples of devanagari printing from the
> earliest printed editions up till fairly modern times (when it was
> published), another volume  describes the authors ideas for a devanagari
> typewriter and the third volume focuses on some esoteric ideas of the
> author.  I can't recall the details.
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
>>


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