Western transliteration of Sanskrit

Western transliteration of Sanskrit

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi,

I'd like to have a table with all available commands (like \d{..} for 
macron) that support diacritic signs needed for western 
transliteration of Sanskrit.

Especially the dot above an n or m:
In an old TUGboat article (Volume 20 (1999), No. 2) that I found by 
Google I read that the dot above an n should be "n (Vulthius). But 
here it stays the " (like the German Umlaut).


Anybody knows more?

Steffen

Re: Western transliteration of Sanskrit

[Adam Lindsay]

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:56:24 +0200:

>
>Especially the dot above an n or m:
>In an old TUGboat article (Volume 20 (1999), No. 2) that I found by 
>Google I read that the dot above an n should be "n (Vulthius). But 
>here it stays the " (like the German Umlaut).

Hmm. Try this:

% look at enco-def for guidance
\buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n

\definecharacter ndotaccent       {\buildtextaccent\textdotaccent n}
   \ndotaccent

%enco-acc provides some shortcuts:
\defineaccent . n {\ndotaccent}
   \.n

\defineaccent " n {\ndotaccent}
   \"n

...as you're making a composite glyph, YMMV with different fonts, as you
saw with variable macron spacing. If you want to activate the ", then
you're on your own...
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