Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 04:10, Kip Warner wrote: The problem is it looks like XeTeX may not fully support some of the features I need like mathematical characters and such yet. What mathematical characters do you miss? Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-27 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 09:35 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 04:10, Kip Warner wrote: The problem is it looks like XeTeX may not fully support some of the features I need like mathematical characters and such yet. What mathematical characters do you miss? Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 03:39, Kip Warner wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 09:35 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 04:10, Kip Warner wrote: The problem is it looks like XeTeX may not fully support some of the features I need like mathematical characters and such yet. What

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-27 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 03:51 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On the other hand if you need other MKIV features that might indeed be a problem. Indeed. =( Did you ever try to change a colour of title and background in LaTeX? :) :) :) I can only imagine ;) -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:22, Kip Warner wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 07:58 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Or produce the whole document with ConTeXt + XeTeX :) I would, but getting ConTeXt alone up and running has taken weeks. If you have it up and running, you can use it now also for XeTeX.

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The example that you sent also works fine in ConTeXt MKIV, They don't. Some of the vowels are combined incorrectly. Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 08:50, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The example that you sent also works fine in ConTeXt MKIV, They don't. Some of the vowels are combined incorrectly. Ah, ok, sorry, I overlooked that. The first one was ok and the second one

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-6-2011 8:50, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The example that you sent also works fine in ConTeXt MKIV, They don't. Some of the vowels are combined incorrectly. I think that the engine is supposed to do some character juggling beforehand (not encoded

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-26 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 08:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 02:22, Kip Warner wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 07:58 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Or produce the whole document with ConTeXt + XeTeX :) I would, but getting ConTeXt alone up and running has taken weeks. If

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 07:58 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Or produce the whole document with ConTeXt + XeTeX :) I would, but getting ConTeXt alone up and running has taken weeks. I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are the typographical rules apart from just

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 06:36 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: ConTeXt MkIV (assuming it is what you use) has no proper support for Devanagari or other Indic scripts. Since you need only few words, you can produce them externally (say ConTeXt MkII with XeTeX or

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-24 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 03:06 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: If you really have to do it this way the dev version of the filter module [1] supports pre and postambles (@Mojca: you needed these for gnuplot module). You can use: \usemodule[filter] \defineexternalfilter[mkii]

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-23 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close enough together and use ligatures), but

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 23-6-2011 8:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Stender
I was planning to spend some time on at least typesetting Devanagari with ConTeXt in the foreseenable future. I'll come back with this in a couple of weeks. Greetings, Daniel Stender On 23.06.2011 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote: On 23-6-2011 8:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 14:05 +0200, Daniel Stender wrote: I was planning to spend some time on at least typesetting Devanagari with ConTeXt in the foreseenable future. I'll come back with this in a couple of weeks. Greetings, Daniel Stender Thanks Daniel. If you need a sample project to

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 06:36 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: ConTeXt MkIV (assuming it is what you use) has no proper support for Devanagari or other Indic scripts. Since you need only few words, you can produce them externally (say ConTeXt MkII with XeTeX or Inkscape) and include the resultant PDF

[NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-22 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I need to sprinkle my book with a few Sanskrit words written in the Devanagari script. I don't need to write complete paragraphs in it, but just a word or two inline. Can anyone show me the ConTeXt source to do such a thing, with, say तरीकिन? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:51:56PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I need to sprinkle my book with a few Sanskrit words written in the Devanagari script. I don't need to write complete paragraphs in it, but just a word or two inline. Can anyone show me the ConTeXt source to do such a

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit Devanagari characters

2011-06-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:51:56PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: Can anyone show me the ConTeXt source to do such a thing, with, say तरीकिन? ConTeXt MkIV (assuming it is what you use) has no proper support for Devanagari or other Indic scripts.