On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 12/18/2013 11:17 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> i uploaded a beta that has the patterns and language definitions .. but >>>>> up >>>>> to you to check it and provide better settings if needed >>>> >>>> >> >> Thanks, Hans! >> Now mkiv correctly loads the patterns and hyphenation works (though >> even with \language[ml], log says "language 'en' is active"). > > > \language is a local command, use \mainlanguage instead
Does not seem to have an effect here. MWE: \starttext %\language[ml] \mainlanguage[ml] \definedfont[file:rachana*default] കോണ്ടെക്സ്റ്റില് മലയാളം ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത് \stoptext The font, Rachana, could be found here: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-6.0/Rachana/Rachana.ttf > > >> Is there a way to also enable mkii/texexec to load the patterns? >> I did copy-paste the section from lang-def.mkiv to lang-ind.mkii and > > > probably some more is needed, but in mkii you then also need tp use utf 8 i > guess and have the right 8 bit fonts > > >> also added an entry in lang-def.lua but the log does not show pattern >> for ml loaded, in addition to mentioning "language ml is undefined". > > > forget about mkii, using 8 bit tex is a bit of a nightmare for ml i think Indeed, but I am using mkii with XeTeX backend (texexec --xetex). I'm trying to make Malayalam shaping work on mkiv (taking Devanagari font-odv.lua as example) but it is quite complex, till then I'm depending on mkii+xetex. > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
