Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters

[Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>]

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On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 08:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:22, Kip Warner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 07:58 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >> Or produce the whole document with ConTeXt + XeTeX :)
> >
> > I would, but getting ConTeXt alone up and running has taken weeks.
> 
> If you have it up and running, you can use it now also for XeTeX.
> 
> The only difference is that you have to run "texexec --xtx filename"
> as opposed to "context filename".
> 
> > You'd think it would just be something really simple like
> > \switchfont[devangari]
> > तरीकिन
> > \unswitchfont
> 
> With ConTeXt+XeTeX it boils down to:
> 
> % this is plain xetex font switch; see next example
> \font\devanagari="Devanagari MT:script=Deva"
> \starttext
> {\devanagari तरीकिन}
> \stoptext
> 
> Or the following one that could work in both XeTeX and LuaTeX with MKIV:
> 
> \definefontfeature[devanagari][script=deva]
> \definefontsynonym[devanagari][name:Devanagari MT][features=devanagari]
> 
> \starttext
> {\definedfont[devanagari] तरीकिन}
> \stoptext
> 
> See attachments. XeTeX should work fine for you, the only question is
> whether you need any MKIV features or not. If you do need them, you
> could use Aditya's approach to insert snipets compiled with XeTeX (it
> will happen automatically), if you don't need them you just take XeTeX
> and you are done. The example that you sent also works fine in ConTeXt
> MKIV, but as soon as it comes to slightly more complex ligatures,
> LuaTeX won't render them properly without writing some additional
> support.
> 
> Mojca

Thanks Mojca. The problem is it looks like XeTeX may not fully support
some of the features I need like mathematical characters and such yet.
Although I have no doubt it probably will eventually.

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Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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