Sanskrit Devanagari Font: Open Type Design, Indic Shaping & Spell Check

Making a new Font is a time-consuming yet rewarding task. Making a Devanagari Font with Indic Shaping features in Open Type Design is especially challenging. This book hopes to address this issue by going into the details of the process involved, by discussing the relevant Unicode Blocks and Shaping features threadbare. There are two principal features in Open Type design, namely Glyph Positioning (GPOS) and Glyph Substitution (GSUB). Each feature has the shaping code layouts as below, which we can use during Font Design. AboveBaseMarkPositioning (abvm) AboveBaseSubstitutions (abvs) Akhands (akhn) BelowBaseForms (blwf) BelowBaseMarkPositioning (blwm) BelowBaseSubstitutions (blws) ConjunctForms (cjct) HalantForms (haln) HalfForms (half) NuktaForms (nukt) PostBaseSubstitutions (psts) PreBaseSubstitutions (pres) RakarForms (rkrf) RephForms (rphf) VattuVariants (vatu) ---------------- Lists all glyphs and characters needed for a Devanagari font to be used for Sanskrit Typesetting. Contains Full Color Plates for legibility and clarity. A proposed character class scheme for correct implementation of Sanskrit Typesetting is outlined here, so that can help users in writing "correct and beautiful Sanskrit" texts and books and documents as per the extant Ancient Sanskrit Literature in the modern world.