Yes, exactly. I'm using this newcommand to get devanagari with Sanskrit
hyphenation:
\newcommand{\dn}[1]{\textsanskrit{\devanagarifont{#1}}}
I also use this for occasional romanized Sanskrit passages within
English prose, to switch the hyphenation from English to Sanskrit and
also get the italics along:
\newcommand{\romskt}[1]{\textsanskrit{\emph{#1}}}
Cheers,
Alessanro
On 02/14/2017 03:00 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Nice to see you here, Alessandro! Many thanks for your code. So it's
the \begin{sanskrit} that switches on the correct hyphenation. And the
string "devanagari" in \devanagarifont is the same as switching on
[Script=Devanagari], I guess.
So for the common situation like this:
संस्कृतभाषा (/saṃskṛtabhāṣā/)
one could construct
\newcommand{\skt}[1]{%
\begin{sanskrit}{\devanagarifont #1} (\emph{{\sanskritfont
#1}})\end{sanskrit}%
}
and get the right scripts and hyphenations.
Even if this works, I am unhappy with the terminological confusion
between scripts and languages. This seems to be built in to
Polyglossia. As we both know, many languages are written in
Devanagari, and Sanskrit is written in many scripts, including Latin.
This isn't very clearly expressed in Polyglossia.
Must rush,
Best, and greetings to the family,
Dominik
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On 14 February 2017 at 04:01, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com
<mailto:zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>> wrote:
As already mentioned, Script=Devanagari switches the correct
shaping of the font so that ki appears as कि and not as क followed
by ि matra. Try to enter किताब with and without it and you will
see the difference.
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2017-02-14 11:30 GMT+01:00 Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de
<mailto:ne...@nililand.de>>:
Am Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:47:09 -0700 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk:
> Does "Script=Devanagari" turn on the hypy-sa hyphenation fil
No. hyphenation patterns are turned on with \selectlanguage{XXX}
commands (and similar commands from polyglossia, babel or the
engines).
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