On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Karel Piska [P{i}v{s}ka] submitted the new package

indic-type1

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/ps-type1/indic Summary description: Indic Type 1 fonts for TeX converted from public METAFONT sources License type: gpl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Type 1 version of public METAFONT fonts (from CTAN) for 10 Indic scripts: Devanagari, Sanskrit, Gurmukhi/Punjabi, Bangla, Tamil, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tibetan. An accurate analytic conversion to outlines using the METAPOST output with subsequent optimization and autohinting with FontForge. The package contains the PFB and MAP files for 122 fonts, the copies of the TFM files have been also included to allow testing the fonts without the original packages. For font tables, proofsheet files and another information see http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/indic.html. Collaboration with the (La)TeX package authors and users is welcome.

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf