In reply to Adobe Devanagari Font:
Thanks, Uli. This is very useful. Later this year I'll be working on a font specifically for Sanskrit, and you analysis is a huge boon for anyone working in this area.
For making a good Hindi font, someone would have to analyze proofread electronic Hindi files and would have to make frequency counts. Thereafter it would become clear, which ligatures should be included into a good Hindi font and which should be omitted.
Yes. It seems this resource doesn't exist yet.
