Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters

[Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>]

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On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 03:06 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> If you really have to do it this way .... the dev version of the filter 
> module [1] supports pre and postambles (@Mojca: you needed these for 
> gnuplot module). You can use:
> 
> \usemodule[filter]
> 
> \defineexternalfilter[mkii]
>                       [filter={texexec --xtx --result=\externalfilteroutputfile  },
>                        output=\externalfilterbasefile.pdf,
>                        directory=output,
>                        continue=yes,
>                        readcommand=\readMKII]
> 
> \define[1]\readMKII
>      {\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[#1][location=lohi]}
> 
> \startmkiipreamble
>    \enableregime[utf-8]
>    % I don't know how to setup typescripts with xetex
>    % The rending is wrong. I think that one needs to enable
>    % some language specific ligatures
>    \font\devnagari="Lohit-Hindi" at 12pt
>    \starttext
>    \startTEXpage[foregroundstyle=\devnagari]
> \stopmkiipreamble
> 
> \startmkiipostamble
>    \stopTEXpage
>    \stoptext
> \stopmkiipostamble
> 
> \starttext
> 
> Check if this works.
> 
> \startmkii
> \startlines
> जाति न पूछो साधु की, पूछ लीजिए ग्‍यान।
> मोल करो तलवार के, पड़ा रहन दो म्‍यान।।
> \stoplines
> \stopmkii
> 
> \stoptext
> % \inlinemkii does not currently work with pre- and postamble
> 
> Aditya
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/adityam/filter/blob/dev/

Hey Aditya. That's pretty convuluted and a bit too much for one or two
words of Sanskrit in a document. I think I'll hold off until there is
native straightforward support. Thanks anyways.

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Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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