2012/2/12 Mike Maxwell <[email protected]>: > On 2/12/2012 7:47 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: >> >> Another possibility is to use ucharclasses... >> >> This is a small sample (no need to change fonts manually): >> >> \documentclass[12pt]{article} >> \usepackage{fontspec} >> \usepackage[Devanagari]{ucharclasses} >> \setmainfont{Charis SIL} >> \setTransitionTo{Devanagari}{\fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{Nakula}} >> \begin{document} >> I can write in English और वाक्य का एक भाग हिंदी में हो सकता है। >> \end{document} > > > This sort of thing came up several years ago on this mailing list (I don't > recall the date, but it was before the 19 Dec 2010 date on the current > ucharclasses documentation). Some people on the list said that this idea > would break where there were ambiguous characters. I presume that would > mostly be punctuation. Some Unicode blocks have their own punctuation > (there's a danda, roughly the equivalent of a period = full stop, in the > above text), but often other blocks use ASCII or extended Latin punctuation. > I don't suppose that's much of a problem with left-to-right scripts, but I > can at least imagine it messing up right-to-left scripts. A period or paren > or comma in the middle of Arabic, Hebrew, or Thaana text, say. > > I skimmed the documentation, but it doesn't mention this situation. (It > does mention potential problems with English and Vietnamese.) However, > there is a \setTransitionsForPunctuation (sxn 4.4), and maybe you could use > this to work around the problem (if it is indeed a problem). > > Has anyone worked with mixing L2R and R2L scripts using this, and if so, did > you run into problems? > -- I have tried but the text did not contain parentheses. I will try if I find some time.
> Mike Maxwell > [email protected] > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
