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Gandhari project
[Andrew Glass]
On the Gandhari Romanization / Gandhari Unicode fonts: These fonts are based on an original Postscript font called "Nimbus Roman No9 L" created by URW++ Design and Development Incorporated and donated to the free software community under the GNU General Public License. The Nimbus Roman No9 L font is itself based on the design for Times New Roman by Stanley Morison (original trademark holder Monotype corporation). The Gandhari fonts have been extended to display the special diacritics necessary for Sanskrit and Gandhari and come in Roman, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles. The notices in the fonts say: "Based on CSX, adapted for Gandhari by Dr. John Smith (University of Cambridge), and Andrew Glass (University of Washington), Buddhist Manuscripts Project. 1997." The fonts use the Private Use Area (PUA) of Unicode for additional diacritics not available in Unicode. Here they are (free): GandhariUnicode-Bold, GandhariUnicode-BoldItalic, GandhariUnicodeItalic, GandhariUnicodeRoman, TimesGandhari2Bold, TimesGandhari2BoldItalic, TimesGandhari2Italic, TimesGandhari2Roman, TimesGandhariBold, TimesGandhariBoldItalic, TimesGandhariItalic, TimesGandhariRoman. The Gandhari Unicode font is a modification of the Times Gandhari font (which is no longer available since 2005), carried out by Andrew Glass for the British Library/University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project between 2000 and 2003. The Times Gandhari font is a modification of the Times CSX font by Andrew Glass and John Smith in 1998. The Times CSX font in turn is a modification of the Nimbus Roman No9 L font by John Smith (http://bombay.oriental.cam.ac.uk/index.html) in 1998. |
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