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Re: Sanskrit TeX fonts wanted

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From: Dominik Wujastyk
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 16:59
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paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:

>Hi,
>I'm using emtex under DOS, but have UNIX TeX available also.  I now
>need to obtain some Sanskrit fonts and macros (and perhaps some
>sample documents).  I saw some people doing Sanskrit with TeX at the
>Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London a few years
>back, so I know it has been done.  Can anyone point me to an
>archive site for this please?

Hello, Paul.  Your friendly Wellcome Institute calling .... :-)

Here is a list of sites from which you can ftp the Sanskrit fonts
for TeX, and associated manuals, egs., etc  (list generated by
an archie: well worth knowing about archie, if you don't already):

 
    Location: /mirrors/msdos/tex
      FILE      rw-r--r--    329870  Dec 17 18:00   devnag.zip
 
Host tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de   (137.226.112.31)
Last updated 22:18  5 Mar 1992
 
    Location: /pub 5 Mar 1992
 
    Location: /pub/PC/oak/tex
      FILE      rw-r--r--    329870  Dec 17 19:00   devnag.zip
 
Host nic.funet.fi   (128.214.6.100)
Last updated 07:01  5 Mar 1992
 
    Location: /pub/msdos/editors/tex
     -r--r--    329870  Dec 17 14:00   devnag.zip
 
Host forwiss.uni-passau.de   (132.231.1.10)
Last updated 16:17  4 Mar 1992
 
    Location: /pub/incoming
      FILE      rw-r--r--    329870  Aug 26 16:39   devnag.zip
 

Best wishes,

Dominik

Wellcome Institute, 
London.
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