On 9/9/2013 10:05 PM, Peter Graif wrote:
Hello,
I recently learned that ConTeXt-mkiv and LuaTeX now support devanagari fonts.
An enormous thank you to Kai and Hans and anyone else involved in making that
happen. I know it's a niche application, but for some of us it makes all the
difference.
I ran some tests on the output and the rendering is lovely, even on the
extremely complex ligatures. I noticed only two errors, both of which are
simple to describe and consistent:
1) Conjuncts of the form (consonant + virama + र "ra") render the opposite
sequence intended. For example:
[U+0915] [U+094D][U+0930] (क्र "kra") incorrectly produces the glyph intended for
[U+0930][U+094D][U+0915] (र्क "rka").
2) Word-final virama causes words to render with a half-consonant at the end.
They should instead display the whole-consonant with the virama diacritic.
Half-consonants should be used only when conjoining with another subsequent
consonant in the same word.
A picture, in case it's more helpful: http://i.imgur.com/MpIwd9w.png
I tried to look at the code in hopes of offering a fix, but I'm afraid it was
way over my head. If there's anything else I can do to help, I'd be happy for
the opportunity.
Can you make a as-small-as-possible test file?
Preferable with proper utf-8 sequences (+ comment mentioning
numbers/classes), good and wrong.
I can probably figure it out but I cannot read or input easily this kind
of scripts.
Hans
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