New sankrit-fonts arch linux package

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

svarita-sign colliding with the anusvAra were irritating me very much, and installing a new font involved some googling. So I (on behalf of others like me) decided to kill that problem by creating a new package which will put all those unusual fonts ( https://github.com/sanskrit-coders/sanskrit-fonts ) in an AUR (community) package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sanskrit-fonts/  which one can install with a few clicks.

Chandas seems to solve the anusvara-svarita collision problem, but doesn't seem to handle the dIrga-svarita well. Any tips?

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Vishvas /विश्वासः

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:53 PM, विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

svarita-sign colliding with the anusvAra were irritating me very much, and installing a new font involved some googling. So I (on behalf of others like me) decided to kill that problem by creating a new package which will put all those unusual fonts ( https://github.com/sanskrit-coders/sanskrit-fonts ) in an AUR (community) package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sanskrit-fonts/  which one can install with a few clicks.

Chandas seems to solve the anusvara-svarita collision problem, but doesn't seem to handle the dIrga-svarita well. Any tips?

Strange thing is that https://airtable.com/shrcadZnalq0ax257 seems to show this problem in Firefox irrespective of what font I set in the Preferences menu, but not on Chrome (where Noto Sans Devanagari is apparently used.)

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

In this connection, I just noted this old advice by shreevatsa:

"""

And keep only whichever of the following you like (be aware that Sahadeva has "Calcutta"-style vowels, and that NotoSans doesn't have conjuncts for अङ्ग and खड्ग, and Kalimati doesn't do the conjuct श्च... so basically you could probably just keep fonts-nakula and nothing else, but Nakula is also a distinctive and "light" font; your tastes may differ):

fonts-deva-extra

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-deva-extra/chandas1-2.ttf

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-deva-extra/kalimati.ttf

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-deva-extra/samanata.ttf

fonts-nakula

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Nakula/nakula.ttf

fonts-noto

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansDevanagariUI-Bold.ttf

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansDevanagariUI-Regular.ttf

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansDevanagari-Bold.ttf

fonts-sahadeva

    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Sahadeva/sahadeva.ttf

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Any other ideas on what fonts one should keep, and what one might trash are welcome!

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

In addition to sanskrit-fonts, we now have:
-  m17n-db-indic (for typing in various scripts)

- stardict-indic-update/ (for looking up dictionaries)

- dyuganga/ (For installing a variety of packages useful for sanskrit digitization work.)

[Mārcis Gasūns]

but doesn't seem to handle the dIrga-svarita well - can you add a screenshot, please?