On 8/5/24 11:31, Jürgen Hanneder via ntg-context wrote:
>
> I have a few questions concerning the commands for setting up Indic
> Fonts, specifically
> for the use of Indologists and other academics dealing with Indian Languages.
Hi Jürgen,
just in case the following might help (no Indian language experience [I
just learnt that Devanagari and Nagari were both scripts]).
> This seems to be out of date and for most academics (especially
> outside of India) it is preferable
> to use Sanskrit in transcription (almost all databases use
> transcription) for input even if
> printing in Nāgarī. For this we now seem to have the transliteration
> IAST to Devanagari (?)
This may be the way (adapted from lang-tra.mkxl):
\definefontfamily [nagari] [rm] [Adishila]
[features=devanagari-one]
\setupbodyfont [nagari]
\usetransliteration[indic]
\definetransliteration
[MyDeva]
[lang=sa,
vector={iast to deva}]
\starttext
Is this Sanskrit?
\starttransliteration[MyDeva]
idaṁ adbhutam kauśika tisraḥ garuḍavāhanan
\stoptransliteration
I really don’t know:
\transliteration[MyDeva]{idaṁ adbhutam kauśika tisraḥ garuḍavāhanan}.
\stoptext
As included in the text, I don’t have the slighliest idea whether the
transliterated text may be Sanskrit.
> What we need are thus three elements: switching the language to
> Sanskrit temporarily (the main language will be english),
\sa is the language switch (which also enables hyphenation). But since
you need transliteration, it is automatically added in the defined
transliteration.
> setting the font for Sanskrit (let us say AsishilaSan),
You already defined that in your minimal sample.
> and enabling input of sanskrit in transcription (input: ānanda ->
> output आनन्द).
See above.
> If someone could tell me how to get all these things into a few
> commands, I would be most grateful. My own attempts, mostly trial and
> error, did not succeed.
Let us know whether the previous sample worked for you (or how it is
failing).
BTW, feel free to improve
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Indic_Scripts#IAST_to_Devanagari.
I hope it helps,
Pablo
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