Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what is \setmainfont used for?)

2017-02-11 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
>> It looks, though, as if you're not taking advantage of the hyphenation rules for Sanskrit in Latin script that are in hyph-sa.tex , but rather hyphenating Sanskrit in Latin Script as if it were English. Is that right? T ​he pdfs ​that I am creating are in Devanagari and sometimes have

Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what is \setmainfont used for?)

2017-02-11 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
A clarification, even though sanskrit transliteration in Roman script is labeled as IAST in the above pages, is does not follow the IAST scheme fully but is cross between that and the ISO standard, similar to the romanization scheme described in

Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what is \setmainfont used for?)

2017-02-11 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Thank you, ShreeDevi. I'll study what you've done with interest. It looks, though, as if you're not taking advantage of the hyphenation rules for Sanskrit in Latin script that are in hyph-sa.tex , but rather hyphenating Sanskrit in Latin Script as if it were English. Is that right? I think we

Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit (was: what is \setmainfont used for?)

2017-02-10 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
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 =