[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 155, Issue 8
Kevin Warnock
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Sat Feb 11 23:35:01 CET 2017
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> 1. Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what is
> \setmainfont used for?) (Dominik Wujastyk)
> 2. Re: Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what
> is \setmainfont used for?) (ShreeDevi Kumar)
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> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:41:26 -0700
> From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> To: Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>, "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX)
> discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was:
> what is \setmainfont used for?)
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> This discussion reminds me of a long-standing question in my mind.
> hyph-sa.tex contains hyphenation rules for Sanskrit in several different
> scripts, including Latin script.
>
> The Polyglossia file gloss-sanskrit.ldf contains codes for invoking many of
> the scripts in which the Sanskrit language is written, such as Devanagari,
> Gujarati, Malayalam and so on. But there isn't a rule for saying, for
> Sanskrit, [Script=Latin].
>
> How would this be done? I've been looking at commands like
> \xpg at fontsetup@latin,
> but it's quite hard (for me) to see what's going on. (I should get the doc
> file.)
>
> Has someone already solved or addressed this, or am I wrong about it in
> some way?
>
> The idea would be to be able to say
>
> \setmainfont{FreeSans}[Script=Latin]
> \newfontfamily\sanskGujarati{Code2000}[Script=Gujarati]
>
> etc.
>
> Actually, the more I play with this, the less I understand what's going
> on. I thought I had Polyglossia nailed, but I don't. Why doesn't
> \sanskGujarati set my text in Gujarati script?
>
> Dominik
>
>
>
> On 10 February 2017 at 03:10, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
>
> > Am Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:54:09 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> >
> > > OK, I have a newer version. Maybe the bug is known and was fixed just a
> > few
> > > days ago.
> >
> > What do mean by that you have newer version? Your fontspec is from
> > 2016 and mine from 2017.
> >
> > And yes the bug is known. I discussed it two weeks ago with Will.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ulrike Fischer
> > http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
> >
> >
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> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:07:37 +0530
> From: ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
> To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
> Cc: Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit
> (was: what is \setmainfont used for?)
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> I use Polyglossia with a modified version of ucharclasses to automatically
> switch font based on script. The preamble has the following :
>
> % mainfont, englishfont, sanskritfont, romanfont, devanagarifont,
> englishfont, vedafont
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> %Polyglossia
> %Script (default = Devanagari) passed to Fontspec for Sanskrit language if
> \devanagarifont or \sanskritfont not defined
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainlanguage{english}
> \setotherlanguage{sanskrit}
> %
> %Fontspec
> \setmainfont[Color=teal]{FreeSerif}
> \setmonofont[Path=/home/shree/sanskritdocuments-git/fonts/,
> Scale=0.7]{mplus-1m-regular.ttf}
> %
> \newfontfamily{\englishfont}{FreeSerif}
> %
> \newfontfamily{\devanagarifont}[Scale=1]{Lohit Devanagari}
> \newfontfamily{\tamilfont}[Script=Tamil,Scale=0.9]{Lohit Tamil Classical}
> \newfontfamily{\telugufont}[Path=/home/shree/sanskritdocuments-git/fonts/,
> Script=Telugu,Scale=1.1]{Pothana2000Vedic_1_2_1.ttf}
> \newfontfamily{\gujaratifont}[Path=/home/shree/
> sanskritdocuments-git/fonts/,Scale=1,Script=Gujarati]{Rasa-Regular.ttf}
> \newfontfamily{\vedafont}[Scale=1.2,Color=purple]{Siddhanta}
> \newfontfamily{\vedablackfont}[Scale=1.1]{Siddhanta}
> %
> \usepackage[Latin, GeneralPunctuation, DevanagariMarks, DevanagariPreMarks,
> DevanagariExtended, DevanagariPostMarks, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu,
> VedicExtensions, SuperscriptsAndSubscripts]{ucharclasses}
> \setTransitionsForLatin{\englishfont}{}
> \setTransitionTo{GeneralPunctuation}{\englishfont}
> \setTransitionTo{SuperscriptsAndSubscripts}{\englishfont}
> \setTransitionTo{DevanagariPreMarks}{\devanagarifont}
> \setTransitionTo{DevanagariPostMarks}{\devanagarifont}
> \setTransitionTo{DevanagariMarks}{\vedafont}
> \setTransitionTo{DevanagariExtended}{\vedablackfont}
> \setTransitionTo{VedicExtensions}{\vedafont}
> \setTransitionTo{Gujarati}{\gujaratifont}
> \setTransitionTo{Tamil}{\tamilfont}
> \setTransitionTo{Telugu}{\telugufont}
> %
> \setTransitionsFor{Latin}
> {\hyphenrules{english}\englishfont}
> {\hyphenrules{sanskrit}\devanagarifont}
> \setTransitionsFor{Devanagari}
> {\hyphenrules{sanskrit}\devanagarifont}
> {\hyphenrules{english}\englishfont}
> %
>
>
> ShreeDevi
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> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This discussion reminds me of a long-standing question in my mind.
> > hyph-sa.tex contains hyphenation rules for Sanskrit in several different
> > scripts, including Latin script.
> >
> > The Polyglossia file gloss-sanskrit.ldf contains codes for invoking many
> > of the scripts in which the Sanskrit language is written, such as
> > Devanagari, Gujarati, Malayalam and so on. But there isn't a rule for
> > saying, for Sanskrit, [Script=Latin].
> >
> > How would this be done? I've been looking at commands like
> \xpg at fontsetup@latin,
> > but it's quite hard (for me) to see what's going on. (I should get the
> doc
> > file.)
> >
> > Has someone already solved or addressed this, or am I wrong about it in
> > some way?
> >
> > The idea would be to be able to say
> >
> > \setmainfont{FreeSans}[Script=Latin]
> > \newfontfamily\sanskGujarati{Code2000}[Script=Gujarati]
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Actually, the more I play with this, the less I understand what's going
> > on. I thought I had Polyglossia nailed, but I don't. Why doesn't
> > \sanskGujarati set my text in Gujarati script?
> >
> > Dominik
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10 February 2017 at 03:10, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Am Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:54:09 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> >>
> >> > OK, I have a newer version. Maybe the bug is known and was fixed just
> a
> >> few
> >> > days ago.
> >>
> >> What do mean by that you have newer version? Your fontspec is from
> >> 2016 and mine from 2017.
> >>
> >> And yes the bug is known. I discussed it two weeks ago with Will.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ulrike Fischer
> >> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
> >>
> >>
> >>
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