Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 06:36 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's an inelegant, albeit workable solution - but perhaps the only way.
> Thanks for your help.

If you really have to do it this way .... the dev version of the filter 
module [1] supports pre and postambles (@Mojca: you needed these for 
gnuplot module). You can use:

\usemodule[filter]

\defineexternalfilter[mkii]
                      [filter={texexec --xtx --result=\externalfilteroutputfile  },
                       output=\externalfilterbasefile.pdf,
                       directory=output,
                       continue=yes,
                       readcommand=\readMKII]

\define[1]\readMKII
     {\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[#1][location=lohi]}

\startmkiipreamble
   \enableregime[utf-8]
   % I don't know how to setup typescripts with xetex
   % The rending is wrong. I think that one needs to enable
   % some language specific ligatures
   \font\devnagari="Lohit-Hindi" at 12pt
   \starttext
   \startTEXpage[foregroundstyle=\devnagari]
\stopmkiipreamble

\startmkiipostamble
   \stopTEXpage
   \stoptext
\stopmkiipostamble

\starttext

Check if this works.

\startmkii
\startlines
जाति न पूछो साधु की, पूछ लीजिए ग्‍यान।
मोल करो तलवार के, पड़ा रहन दो म्‍यान।।
\stoplines
\stopmkii

\stoptext
% \inlinemkii does not currently work with pre- and postamble

Aditya

[1]: https://github.com/adityam/filter/blob/dev/

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