[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation

Yves Codet ycodet at club-internet.fr
Mon Mar 28 06:58:45 CEST 2005


Le 26 mars 05, à 19:35, Will Robertson a écrit :

> I would do something like this: (you'll need the latest fontspec -- 
> v1.6 -- from CTAN if you don't have it already)
>
>   \newfontinstance\frenchfont{Cochin}
>   \newfontinstance\devanagarifont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit 2003}
>   \newcommand*\sanskrittext[1]{{\devanagarifont\language=\sanskrit #1}}
>   \newenvironment{sanskritpar}{\devanagarifont\language=\sanskrit}{}
>
>   \frenchfont
>   text in french \sanskrittext{short text in sanskrit} more text in 
> french
>   \begin{sanskritpar}
>     long sanskrit text
>   \end{sanskritpar}
>   more text in french
>
> (Untested.)
> Is that what you were after?

Yes, it works fine (except the \language=\sanskrit :-(
Is  \newcommand*\sanskrittext another syntax for  
\newcommand{\sanskrittext}?

Thanks for your help.

Yves



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