Old DevLys layout files into Mangal-ready Unicode. Once converted, the text works on any portal, website or phone without asking anyone to install a font.
Mangal is just a Unicode font
Converting DevLys to Mangal means converting DevLys to Unicode and then setting Mangal as the display font. There is no separate Mangal encoding to target. Once the characters are Unicode, Mangal renders them, and so does every other Devanagari font on every platform.
People search for it as “DevLys to Mangal” because Mangal is the font they see named in Word, so the page exists under that name. Underneath it is the same tested engine used across this site.
Getting archive content online
The typical case is a DTP archive that needs to become web content. A department has ten years of newsletters in PageMaker, all set in DevLys. Or a publisher wants old question papers searchable. Or a magazine is putting its back catalogue on a website.
In every one of those, the blocker is the same. The text exists, it is even correctly typed, but it is locked in a form that only one font on one machine can read. Conversion is what unlocks it, and the moment it is Unicode the content becomes searchable, indexable, and readable on a phone.
Output is NFC normalised, which is the form content management systems and search indexes expect.
Bulk work
For a handful of pages, paste and copy is fine. For a large archive, import each file as .docx rather than pasting — it is faster and avoids the clipboard mangling special characters. Formatting will not survive either way, so plan on restyling in whatever system the content is going into.
If you have hundreds of files, the sensible route is scripting the conversion rather than doing it by hand. The mapping logic on this page is straightforward enough to port.
DevLys and Mangal
Is DevLys to Mangal different from DevLys to Unicode?
No. Mangal is a Unicode Devanagari font, so producing Mangal text means producing Unicode and applying Mangal to display it. Both pages exist because both phrasings get searched.
Do readers need Mangal installed?
No, and that is the main benefit. Unicode text renders with whatever Devanagari font the reader’s device already has. Windows has had Mangal since XP and Nirmala UI since Windows 10, while phones and Macs supply their own.
Will this work for Marathi text typed in DevLys?
The shared Devanagari letters convert, including ळ and the eyelash ra. Give Marathi-specific typesetting a proofread before publishing.
Can I convert a large batch of files?
This page handles one file at a time through the import button. For a big archive, scripting the conversion is a better use of your afternoon.