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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:58:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik7A+a1Q2p60iFoqHixJuE686+8bg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623043639.GA22664@khaled-laptop>

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:51:56PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Or produce the whole document with ConTeXt + XeTeX :)

I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are
the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close
enough together and use ligatures), but there is also a chance that
the features are added if that is simple enough.

Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23  5:58 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
2011-06-23  5:58   ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
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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