[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/7 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
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> Le 07/09/2012 07:28, Neal Delmonico a écrit :
>> find them and voila! suddenly XeLaTeX could find them too.
> <couic>
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>> Sadly, I see that FreeSerif does not handle some of the common
>> conjuncts well. Guttural n and g do not combine, nor do d and g, for
>> instance.
>
> these two work for me...
>
> But, I think there is some bug in velthuis-sanskrit.map : ~n is not
> taken into account. If you type pa~nca, you get in devanagari: pa nca (I
> think that the space is an unbreakable space).
>
You have to set \catcode`\~=12 because the map is applied by XeTeX
_after_ expansion of the active characters.

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