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In early 2022, Hans made some nice improvements to the indic font system in ConTeXt. This was accompanied by some testing with various available fonts for some indic languages. As a result, there is an improved support for Indic fonts in ConTeXt. Various typescripts were then bundled into the ConTeXt distribution for easy use in documents.
The following table lists fonts that have been tested for use with ConTeXt. The list is by no means extensive: most of the fonts are relatively new and some (ubiquitous) old fonts are absent. If you find a font missing in this list and that works well in ConTeXt, please add it to the list.To use indic fonts place <texcode>\usetypescriptfile[indic]</texcode>in the document head and use {{cmd|definetypeface}} and/or {{cmd|setupbodyfont}} with the following typescripts:
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One can of course use fonts not listed above. This section provides some details to this end.
== Font feaures == The OTF specification has two shaping implementations for the indic scripts: the 'older' v1 and the 'newer' v2. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/devanagari See here] for further details. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/scripttags Script tags from the OpenType specification] contains second versions for some Indic scripts. Why are those second versions available? From their own explanation: <blockquote>The OpenType script tags can also correlate with a particular OpenType Layout implementation, with the result that more than one script tag may be registered for a given Unicode script (e.g. 'deva' and 'dev2').</blockquote> Features ending in <code>-one</code> use the older OpenType implementation, while the ones ending in <code>-two</code> deploy the newer implementation. These are specified in ConTeXt by the following font features:
{| cellpadding="5"
Please note that these font features also activate other font features as mandated in the OTF specification. These features can then be used to write typescripts for a font or to use the font directly in documents {{cmd|definefontfamily}} and/or {{cmd|definedfont}}.
One of the common problems one might encounter with indic fonts is that of incorrect rendering of conjuncts involving the rakaar. In case any problems are encountered, one can try setting the <code>indic</code> feature (in addition to relevant <code>-one</code> or <code>-two</code> features above) appropriately as follows:<texcode>\definefontfeature […] […] [indic={matra= Script Versions =auto,conjuncts=quit}]</texcode>
= Script and language features =
|IAST to Devanagari
|<code>iast to deva</code>
|-
|ITrans to Devanagari
|<code>itrans to deva</code>
|-
|Devanagari to Malayalam
\stoptext
</texcode>
Please note that there is also {{cmd|resettransliteration}} which can be used in stream to (temporarily) prevent any transliteration.
== Exceptions ==