So what would be a canonical way to set up \saDev{xxx} for typesetting Sanskrit in Devanagari, and \saIAST{yyy} for typesetting Sanskrit in Roman script, with both getting correct Sanskrit hyphenation from the same hyph-sa.tex file?
Something like this? \newfontfamily\devanagarifont [Script=Devanagari, Mapping=iast] {Sanskrit 2003} \def\saDev{{\devanagarifont #1}} % type in IAST transliteration and get Devanagari with Devanagari hyphenation from hyph-sa.tex \newfontfamily\iastfont [Script=Devanagari] {Sanskrit 2003} \def\saIAST{\emph{{\iastfont #1}}} % type in IAST transliteration and get Latin script with Sanskrit hyphenation from hyph-sa.tex Does "Script=Devanagari" turn on the hypy-sa hyphenation file? Best, Dominik
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