[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Minor Poems of Nilakantha Dikshita unicode file

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:19 AM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > The file is available on Adishila website.
> >
>
> Thanks for mentioning this.
>
> The fonts on that website are superb.  I am especially happy to know they
> include the Unicode Vedic extensions.


The one who has done all this is Sri Krishnaprasad who has toiled for long
to develop a large assortment of fonts, reworking them from the old
Nirnayasagar foundry fonts.

The Adishila fonts are officially released. Please download and share.

https://adishila.com/fonts/


The main features of the fonts:

Adishila comes with 4 different designs-

Adishila:This font comes with eight type faces. The font design is inspired
by Vanivilas Press Srirangam. Originally developed by Nirnay Sagar type
foundry.

Adishila San: This font comes with four type faces. The font design is
inspired by Nirnay Sagar Press books. Originally developed by Nirnay Sagar
type foundry.

Adishila Dev: This font comes with three type faces. The font design is
inspired by Nirnay Sagar Press books. Originally developed by Nirnay Sagar
type foundry.

Adishila Samskrta: This font comes with single type face. The font design
is exact trace of Nirnay Sagar Press books without modification. Originally
developed by Nirnay Sagar type foundry.

Character set-

Adishila contains Vedic and Devanagari Extended Unicode character sets. The
font also contains Latin and Diacritics IAST character sets and can be used
for Sanskrit transliteration. This is also available with the Letterpress
variant in which the top line has a gaps after every character;

Adishila San contains Vedic and Devanagari Extended Unicode character sets.
The font also contains Latin and Diacritics IAST character sets and can be
used for Sanskrit transliteration. This is also available with the
Letterpress variant in which the top line has a gaps after every character;

Adishila Dev contains Unicode Devanagari fonts and Latin character sets.

Compatibility Adishila can be used on all major document editing software
platforms including LaTeX MS word Indesign etc. on Windows, MAC and Linux.

Keyboard compatibility The fonts can be typeset using Adishila Keyboard or
any other standard keyboards like INSCRIPT, Devanagari(for MAC OS) or
Vidyut Phonetic Keboard, Vaidika keyboard which are available on the
internet. Also compatible with Intranslator 2003.


regards
subbu



>   A little while ago I wrote about
> how I was compiling a text on Shiva puja for my personal use.  I did it
> and I used the freely available chandas and siddhanta fonts for the
> vedokta mantras.  While those fonts are complete in coverage, they are not
> that great aesthetically.  The Adishila fonts look much better.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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