Bhate Nyanatusita,
Sadhu & gedanke for the Pali fonts: they are really wonderful as they
provide all the charcters for Sinhale transliteration.
I notice however, the niggahita only as .m with the dot below m. I
usually use m with the dot above it as some other scholars, too. Would
be it possible for this to be added to the font list.
Times Norman has the m with superior dot only in the lower case.
Namakkara.m
Piya
nyanatusita wrote:
>Dear all,
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>There is a new high quality, free, and completely legal (i.e., not
>``borrowed'' or ``forged'' from a copyrighted typeface) Truetype Pali
>font called URW Palladio Pali available at
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> http://www.sanskritweb.net/fonts/papali.pdf
> http://www.sanskritweb.net/fonts/papali.zip
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>Papali.zip contains the finished font in all 4 styles. Papali.pdf
>contains the documentation.
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>The expert fontdesigner Ulrich Stiehl has been so kind to create this
>font for the Buddhist Publication Society. It has all English, French,
>and German characters, besides the transliteration characters needed for
>Pali, Classical Sanskrit and Sinhala. The font is in the nice Palladio
>typeface which is somewhat similar to Palatino.
>If anyone thinks that it would be good to let Stiehl design a Palladio
>Pali Unicode font then let me know and I will try to ask him to do it. I
>don't know how much work is involved and don't want to trouble him
>unless there is considerable interest. It could be based on the TTF font
>or on the 1252 character code so that it would include also all the
>Scandinavian characters and the Spanish and Italian characters.
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>The Palatino Linotype typeface which has been used for creating Palatino
>CSX+, etc, is fully copyrighted by Linotype in Germany and as far as I
>understand from the font-info Linotype doesn't allow the Palatino font
>to be changed and distributed without their permission. I am trying to
>find out what the situation is regarding the fonts Times CSX+, Norman,
>and Normyn, which are ``derived'' from Times New Roman which has been
>copyrighted by Monotype. The copyright situation regarding fonts still
>seems to be a gray area as even major companies are copying and forging
>each other's fonts and there are even second degree ``forgeries''
>around. It might well be that Linotype is not the original copyright
>holder of Palatino and Monotype not the copyrightholder of Times as they
>both sell fonts which supposedly have been forged by them. For example
>the Arial typeface of Monotype is a forgery of Helvetica according to
>Stiehl. See the Font Forging Industry webpage on www.sanskritweb.
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>If anyone needs the Autohotkey typing script for this new Palladio Pali
>font then please let me know.
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>Mettaya,
> Bh. Nyanatusita
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