Devanagari Output

Two fonts are supported, devnac and devnag. devnac is a PostScript Type III font. This font can be used with both the TEX interface, and the direct PostScript interface (dumb textual) mode of itrans.

The font is named dnh in the TEX interface, and variations are also available, named dnho, dnhrc, dnhre. In the direct PostScript interface, the generic font changing commands normalfont, slantfont, compressedfont, expandedfont, etc have to be used. See the file itrans.pro to get a handle on the workings of the above PostScript commands.

This devanagari font tries to be a all-encompassing font, for the hindi, marathi, and sanskrit languages. If you feel it is missing some character or ligature, please let me know, send me e-mail at avinash@contex.com.

See the reference document dvnc.itx for the transliteration map and example texts. The IFM files for this font are dvnc.ifm and mdvnc.ifm.

devnag is a Metafont font, and thus can only be used with the TEX interface of itrans. This font is not bundled in with itrans, but has to be obtained from one of the anonymous FTP sites listed in the document dvng.itx. This font is supported by itrans in a limited manner, in that not all ligatures are available for use. This is because itrans can only handle two consonant ligatures, thus all the three or more consonant ligatures in devnag cannot be printed using itrans. Again, the document dvng.itx contains complete details and lists of the ligatures that are used and that are ignored by itrans. The IFM files for this font are dvng.ifm and mdvng.ifm.