From: ajithramayyan@yahoo.co.in
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Proper ligatures in Malayalam
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:47:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210625164634.06402738@desktop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2326fe67-47a6-26a0-0739-4d53a904317e@gmx.es>
Hi Pablo
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:17:53 +0200
Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
> On 6/24/21 10:25 AM, Ajith R wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to make a document in Malayalam, an Indian language.
> > However, the ligatures don't form as expected. [..]
> > What setting am I missing?
>
> Hi Ajith,
>
> I don’t have any idea about Malayalam (or any other Indic language [I
> can deal with Latin and Greek scripts only, I’m afraid]), but this
> seems to work fine.
>
> \mainlanguage[ml]
> \definefontfamily [malayalam] [rm] [RIT Rachana]
> [features=malayalam-two]
> \setupbodyfont [malayalam]
> \starttext
> \tf അദ്ധ്യായം\\
> \em അദ്ധ്യായം\\
> \bf അദ്ധ്യായം\\
> \em അദ്ധ്യായം
> \stoptext
>
> Fonts are RIT Rachana from http://www.rachana.org.in/.
>
> The relevant feature here malayalam-two. I used serif (or rm), since
> the font looked to me more serif than sans-serif (Latin glyphs are
> clearly from a serif font).
>
> > The expected form is show in libre office with the same text and
> > font, attached as an image
>
> I would say that with malayalam-two ligatures are the same ones as in
> LibreOffice.
>
> Just in case it might help,
>
> Pablo
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2021-06-23 10:24 ` Ajith R
2021-06-24 8:25 ` Ajith R
2021-06-24 10:06 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-25 11:19 ` Ajith R
2021-07-01 18:07 ` Ajith R
2021-06-24 14:17 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2021-06-25 11:17 ` ajithramayyan [this message]
2021-06-26 9:04 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2021-07-01 18:05 ` Ajith R
2021-07-02 1:03 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-07-06 17:42 ` Ajith R
2021-07-07 6:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-07-07 16:20 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2021-07-14 14:22 ` Ajith R
2021-07-06 17:44 ` Ajith R
2021-07-07 16:42 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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