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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:36:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623043639.GA22664@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308783116.3578.23.camel@kip-laptop>


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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:51:56PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I need to sprinkle my book with a few Sanskrit words written in the
> Devanagari script. I don't need to write complete paragraphs in it, but
> just a word or two inline.
> 
> Can anyone show me the ConTeXt source to do such a thing, with, say
> "तरीकिन"?

ConTeXt MkIV (assuming it is what you use) has no proper support for
Devanagari or other Indic scripts. Since you need only few words, you
can produce them externally (say ConTeXt MkII with XeTeX or Inkscape)
and include the resultant PDF as inline figure.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22 22:51 Kip Warner
2011-06-23  4:36 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-06-23  5:58   ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-23  6:06     ` Khaled Hosny
2011-06-23  7:38       ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-23 12:05         ` Daniel Stender
2011-06-24  0:23           ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26  0:22     ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26  6:44       ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26  6:50         ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-26  6:59           ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26  9:31           ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-27  2:10         ` Kip Warner
2011-06-27  7:35           ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28  1:39             ` Kip Warner
2011-06-28  1:51               ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28  1:57                 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24  0:25   ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24  7:06     ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-24 21:36       ` Kip Warner

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