The devanagari font <#20#>devnag<#20#> is a Metafont font, developed by Frans Velthuis.
This font is not bundled with the itrans package, but is available at many FTP sites. (The reason it is not bundled is that devnag is distributed under the GNU Public License. I do not understand the license fully, and I disagree with the parts I do understand. Anyway, to keep out of trouble I refrain from re-distributing GNU software.)
The devnag font is in a file called <#21#>devnag.tar.Z<#21#> for UNIX systems, and <#22#>devnag.zip<#22#> for MS-DOS.
Anonymous FTP sites:
<#23#> rugrcx.rug.nl (129.125.4.12), in the directory ;SPMquot;pub;SPMquot;
june.cs.washington.edu, in the directory ;SPMquot;/tex;SPMquot;
cs.duke.edu (128.109.140.1), in the directory ;SPMquot;dist/sources;SPMquot; <#23#>
Note: This FTP site info may be out-of-date, refer to the FAQ posting in USENET newsgroup comp.text.tex for up-to-date information.
Bundled with itrans is a Metafont file (dvpn10.mf) which generates a variation of the Devnag font. If you have Metafont on your system, you may use it to generate the PK and TFM files for TEX. This variation was developed by Thomas Ridgeway, and in his words, it is ``a trivial variation of dvng10.mf to resemble devanagari written with an ordinary writing pen''. Looks nice, so I have included the dvpn10.mf file here.
Note that the <#24#>dvpn10.mf<#24#> file alone is insufficient to generate the TEX font, the complete devnag package is required to make it usable. And, you must know enough about Metafont to run it.
<#25#>Important:<#25#> <#799#> itrans cannot automatically handle all the ligatures present in the devnag font. The itrans package is limited in in that only two-consonant ligatures can be supported. The Devnag font does contain many three- and four- consonant ligatures, none of which can be printed using <#26#>itrans<#26#>. See the section titled ``Limitations'' for more details.<#799#>