Version 1.1, 2 November 2015
Version history:
Version 1.0, 3 July 2015
Version 1.1, 2 November 2015
Fonts
In 2015 we have chosen David Březina’s Skolar Gujarati as the preferred font for Gujarati text. Typesetters must buy their own user licenses of the fonts from the Rosetta Type Foundry. Brill only has one license, which is used for testing the font by Pim Rietbroek. Of the four Skolar Gujarati fonts – Light, Regular, Semibold, and Bold – Brill publications will normally use the Regular and the Bold weights. This typeface can also be used for Devanagari (Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali).
Marking Emphasis
The Gujarati script does not use a “cursive” type form to mark text as emphasized. Instead, bold type is used.
Skolar Gujarati font sizes correlated with “Brill” font sizes
Skolar Gujarati: 10 pt ~ Brill 11 pt
Skolar Gujarati: 9.1 pt ~ Brill 10 pt
Skolar Gujarati: 8.2 pt ~ Brill 9 pt
Chapter/journal titles: Skolar Gujarati Bold: 12 pt ~ Brill Bold 16 pt
Conjuncts
In Gujarati, like in many Indic languages, successive consonants lacking a vowel in between them may physically join together as a 'conjunct' (what we may call a ligature), using complicated shaping rules. If these characters are not clustered, the virama (used after a consonant to “strip” it of its inherent vowel) will appear underneath the first consonant. To avoid this, use the settings below.
Not clustered, showing the virama:
Same text with conjuncts:
Settings
Instruct the typesetters to keep the *contextual alternates* on at all times. World-ready composer needs to be active. Setting the language to Gujarati strangely might not set all defaults properly, so keep the text formatted to English.
