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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next prev parent 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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