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From: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Hindi fonts for IBM or Amiga
Summary: Sanskrit and Hindi fonts exist for TeX
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.152721.18778@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Aug 90 15:27:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.230132.27974@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
Organization: Institute of Education University of London
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In article <1990Aug15.230132.27974@ariel.unm.edu> rory@hydra.unm.edu (Rory K McManus ASIAN.STUDI) writes:
>
>when I am at the public labs at the University. What I really would like
>to get is a Hindi font program for the IBM PC or for an Amiga computer
>(or both!). If you know of any programs of this type I would greatly 
>appreciate your informing me of them, particularily if they are PD and
>ftp-able. Thanks!
>
Superb Sanskrit and Hindi fonts have been created in METAFONT for use
with TeX (and LaTeX etc.).  TeX is available free for the IBM PC and
the Amiga.  (Post queries about TeX to comp.text.tex, not to me
please.)  The fonts are available for about $100 from Frans Velthuis
(velthuis@hgrrug5.bitnet).

Dominik