[XeTeX] XeTeX & sanskrit : how to sart

[Yves Codet]

Hello, Yves.

Another font you could use is Siddhanta :

http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/

It also includes two character ranges, Devanagari Extended and Vedic Extensions, which were added in Unicode 5.2.

Incidentally (and this is quite off-topic :), Devanagari texts on the site you mentioned are very faulty:  ॊ instead of  ो (these are no stylistic variants but different characters and the first one does not exist in Sanskrit), no virama under final consonant, and more. For instance the first line:
नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरॊत्तमम
should be:
नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरोत्तमम्

You can download a much more reliable text, in Devanagari or transliteration, on John Smith's site:

http://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/statement.html

Best wishes,

Yves

Le 15 août 2012 à 01:17, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :

> 2012/8/15 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Gildas Hamel <gweltaz at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> * Skriv a reas Helios (helios at frmail.net):
>>> |>
>>> |>  Thanks Gildas.
>>> |>
>>> |>  Your script give don't give me the good result.
>>> |>
>>> |>  I have change only this line
>>> |>  % \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit2003} %
>>> |>  ou autre police
>>> |>  \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{SaSETU} % ou autre police
>>> |>  and each character is replaced by a square.
>>> |>
>>> 
>>> I don't know the SaSETU font or Sanskrit for that matter. Using Arial Unicode MS instead of Sanskrit2003, I get what looks like a good result.
>>> --Gildas
>> 
> As the error message says, SaSETU does not contain Devanagari.
> Remember, there are plenty of Devanagari fonts with custom encodings
> that were intended to be used in special applications in the
> pre-Unicode era. Such fonts will not work in XeTeX. (It is always
> useful to read the error messages, they almost always contain
> important infgormation.)
> 
> If you do not have good Sanskrit fonts, take them either from John Smith's page:
> http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/devanagari/
> 
> or you can use GNU FreeSerif (but you need a new version, eg the one
> distributed with TeX Live 2012)
> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I don't see SaSETU on my Mac but I do have Sathu which is a ttf font.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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