[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation

[somadevah at aol.com]

Hello,

I too would be very happy to see the sanhyph.tex patterns added to 
language.dat by default. They work very well and it is a bother to 
recompile them each time XeTeX is upgraded.

One question. The sanhyph.tex file defines patterns for Devanagari 
script only. Would it not make sense to add other scripts too (using 
the same patterns)? In Southern India Sanskrit is often written with 
local scripts (as it is sometimes in Bengal etc) and then should it not 
include roman transliteration too? However, I must note that if the 
exactly same patterns are used for the diacritic Roman transliteration 
the result is readable but a bit strange (you get lines beginning with 
consonant clusters).

Somadeva Vasudeva
Wolfson College
Oxford OX2 6UD