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/