CTAN Update: Velthuis devanagari for TeX
Date: June 23, 2008 1:25:48 AM CEST
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 Zdeněk Wagner submitted an update to the
devanagari
package.
It contains Frans Velthuis' preprocessor for Devanagari text, and fonts and
macros to use when typesetting the processed text. The macros provide features
that support Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and other languages typically
printed in the Devanagari script.
The fonts are available both in Metafont and Type 1 format.
Location on CTAN: /language/devanagari/velthuis
Summary description: Update to version 2.15
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
This update adds an LDF file for using Hindi with babel and support for XeTeX.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/devanagari/velthuis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=devanagari (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
This update adds an LDF file for using Hindi with babel and support for XeTeX.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/devanagari/velthuis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=devanagari (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
devanagari – Typeset Devanagari
Frans Velthuis' preprocessor for Devanagari text, and fonts and macros to use when typesetting the processed text. The macros provide features that support Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and other languages typically printed in the Devanagari script.
The package provides fonts, in both METAFONT and Type 1 formats.
Users of modern TeX distributions may care to try the XeTeX based package, which is far preferable for users who can type Unicode text.
| Package | devanagari |
| Version | 2.17.1 |
| Maintainer | Anshuman Pandey François Patte Steven T. Smith Frans Velthuis Zdeněk Wagner Dominik Wujastyk |