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Re: Devanagari fonts
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Subject: Re: Devanagari fonts
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From: descarte@alma.europe.adobe.com
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:08:31 GMT
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Apparently-To: uunet!alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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From adobe!adobe!news@uunet.uu.net Thu Dec 22 08: 59:59 1994
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Interstellar Fruitbat
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In article <3da79j$t5n@ucunix.san.uc.edu> hal_computer@earthlink.net (Debashish Banerji) writes:
>In article <3d51hd$sv7@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, Internet Direct Usenet News <usenet@herald.indirect.com> raphael@indirect.com (Raphael Carter) says:
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>>Someone here was looking for Devanagari fonts a while back. There is a
>>company called InProS, that puts out a reasonably priced line of
>>Indian-language fonts. You can reach them at: <info@inpros.com>
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>Dr Prasun K. De in Los Angeles is the creator and distributor of an
>excellent (very elegant) set of Devanagari (and Bengali) fonts for the
>Macintosh and for Windows. The keyboard layout is designed for
>efficiency of typing (taking finger position and frequency of letter
>usage into account) and the font ia a TrueType and therefore scaleable
>laser font that can be printed in all styles supported by your Windows
>or Macintosh Wordprocessor. The font is priced at $100 per set, and
>if you are a student, working with these languages, there is a
>concessional price of $65 per font. (Further need-based concessions are
>available.) The proceeds are donated to the Sri Aurobindo Center of
>Los Angeles. For a copy of the keyboard layout and a sample of the
>printed output, please send your name and address through e-mail to
>Debashish Banerji at hal_computer@earthlink.net
There is a set of Devanagari fonts available for LaTeX/TeX from
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk somewhere. I have a copy of these, and they seem
quite good.......Nice crisp characters, plus you get a LaTeX style
file for layout.
OM P IAD. 333
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