[tex-live] scheme modern

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/1/6 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>
>> > ...
>> > But many people use XeTeX/LuaTeX in order to typeset Arabic and Asian
>> > scripts. :)
>>
>> There is no usable (for modern engines) Arabic fonts in texlive AFAIK,
>> so Arabic users are not losing that much (Also Arabic fonts tend to be
>> small, < 100kb each). I doubt there is much usable CJK font either.
>
> do such (free) fonts exist?  if so, why not get them on ctan so they
> _will_ appear in texlive in due course?
>
> it seems to me that we've quite a lot of "bits" of tex work for using
> middle eastern and north african languages, but nothing to draw them
> together.  it would be really pleasing if a focus could emerge, on
> putting the pieces together for such potential users.
>
> however, what you say is (sadly) true just now
>
Libertine and Luxi (they come with Linux) contain both Arabic and
Devanagari characters, I have not checked other script. Linux dostros
contain packages of free OpenType fonts for Indic languages. Nafees
fonts are also useful as well as SIL Sheherezade. For the Indic
languages I think John Smith's Nakula and Sahadeva fonts could be
included. A lot of free fonts for Indic languages can be found on web.
I do not know how much free they are, their license may be "nosell".
If there authors are not aware of TeX, it would need someone to take
care of uploading all these fonts.


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