{"product_id":"sanskrit-devanagari-font-ashwini-kumar-aggarwal-9788195075485","title":"Sanskrit Devanagari Font: Open Type Design, Indic Shaping \u0026 Spell Check","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndic Shaping Features\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are two principal features in Open Type design, namely Glyph Positioning (GPOS) and Glyph Substitution (GSUB). 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