[XeTeX] Devanagari, xelatex, and \footnote

[David Carlisle]

If you base it on catcode changes it will never work in the argument
of another command, not just footnotes. There is no need to switch
catcodes.

leave ~ as active always and when you want it locally to be a normal ~ do

\edef~{\string~}

so the active ~ just expands to a non-active one.

David



On 15 August 2016 at 09:58, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> See
> http://cikitsa.blogspot.in/2010/09/xelatex-velthuis-encoding-and-palatal.html
> and the last comment .
>
> Here are modified tex and pdf files based on the above, tested with
> texlive2016. However, tilde does not get displayed in the english text.
>
>
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> ShreeDevi
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:12 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You may need to use a footnotefont that supports devanagari.
>>
>> Or try using ucharclasses to automatically switch fonts based on unicode
>> blocks.
>>
>> ShreeDevi
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>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Hueckstedt, Robert A. (rah2k)
>> <rah2k at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I attach a simple tex file and the pdf it produces to illustrate the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> We set the ~ character to catcode 12 so that it can function normally in
>>> devanagari text (typed in the tex file in roman). When j and ~n come
>>> together in a word, then they produce the conjunct consonant as seen in the
>>> pdf file, but when the same j and ~n come together in the same word in a
>>> footnote, the catcode for ~ seems to revert to 13 and it causes the
>>> interword space. How do I make that ~ function in the footnote as it does in
>>> the text?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help or for any suggestions for other fora to
>>> use to solve this problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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