[comp.text.tex] Looking for Bengali fonts for Tex

jmr@hart.Princeton.EDU (James M. Roberts) (05/21/91)

I am looking for a Bengali font for TeX, hoping that someone
has already created it.

Thanks.

James M. Roberts

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teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) (05/22/91)

In article <jmr.674838193@hart> jmr@hart.Princeton.EDU (James M. Roberts) writes:
>
>I am looking for a Bengali font for TeX, hoping that someone
>has already created it.
>

'fraid not, at least to my knowledge.  I keep my ear to the ground for
news about Indic fonts.  Tom Ridgeway (Univ. of Washington
<ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu> ) has a way of surprising me,
though, with news of Metafonts.  He has produced Cyrillic, Tamil,
Vietnamese, and recently an IPA.  But no Bengali yet.

Dominik