The devanagari font is called <#20#>devnac<#20#>, and its PostScript description
resides in the file <#21#>devnac.ps<#21#>.
It is a user-defined type III PostScript font.
Four fonts, variations on the basic devnac font, are bundled with the itrans
package.
Their names (in the TEX interface) are dnh, dnho, dnhrc, and dnhre.
- dnh
- This is the basic devanagari font. There are some other fonts
available, derived by transforming this font.
- dnho
- This is the slanted version of <#23#>dnh<#23#>.
- dnhrc
- Both <#24#>dnho<#24#> and <#25#>dnh<#25#> look extremely heavy.
A scaled down, compressed version
(along the x-axis) of the basic font is available as <#26#>dnhrc<#26#>.
- <#971#>dnhre<#971#>
- This is heavier than <#27#>dnh<#27#>, to be used as a bold version.
Since these are PostScript fonts, you can use them at any font size in
your document.
In fact, the font size must be specified when loading in the font.
In this document (and in idoc.itx), the following line was used for
loading the font:
3.
Even though this document has been typeset using a 11 point size, the
devanagari font is loaded in at 15 point size.
This is just to emphasize the devanagari characters.
Normally, I would suggest loading in the font at 15-20 greater size than
the other text in the document.
So, if your document is being typeset at 11 point, load in the devanagari
fonts using a 13 point size.
Of course, this relation of size is important only if you wish to mix
english and devanagari in the same document.
In any case, go wild, experiment with various font sizes.
Since the characters are described as outlines in bezier curve form,
smaller point sizes do not look too good on a 300dpi output device, the
larger the font size, the better the shapes look.