Devanagari for LaTeX

Reference sites:
http://devnag.sarovar.org/
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tugindia/2003-April/001581.html

Download devnagr_???.zip from this site: http://sarovar.org/projects/devnag/

Let us say this is unzip-ed and stored in /tmp
It contains a top-level folder called texmf-dist

Enabling your machine to support devanagari fonts in LaTeX would require moving a few files.


# cd /usr/share/texmf
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/tex/latex/devnagr/ .
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/devanagar/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/devanagr/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/tex/plain/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/
# mv /tmp/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/devanagr/ /usr/share/texmf/doc/fonts/
# updmap --enable MixedMap dvng.map
# texhash

# gcc -o devnag devnag.c

# devnag misspaal.dn

creates a misspaal.tex file; compile it using latex