2014-03-13 19:09 GMT+01:00 François Patte <[email protected]>: > Bonjour, > > When writing a Sanskrit text, there are (at least) two ways: roman > transliteration, or devanagari. > > In a transliterated text, there are much more blank spaces between > "words" than in a devanagari text. I would like to be able to have only > one file for a text and choose either transliteration or devanagari. > > Is it possible to have some active character which separates "words" in > the file and this character will give a blank space, if I choose > tranliteration, and will give a null space if I choose devanagari, but a > null space which allows ligature if necessary. > > For instance, in the file we have: tasmād_dhetor_bijasya and we get, > after compilation: > > tasmād dhetor bījasya (in transliteration) > > or > > तस्माद्धेतोर्बीजस्य (in devanagari) > > (I have chosen underscore as the active character, but it is not the > best idea...) > The TECkit mapping is applied after all macros are expanded, just before the horizontal list is built. You have to decide in advance whether _ will expand to \space or to nothing. Thus you can do the following:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{%
FreeSerif%
}
\usepackage{polyglossia}% I prefer polyglossia to babel
\setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
\newfontfamily\sanskritfont[%
Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit,AutoFakeSlant=0.2]{FreeSerif}
\begin{document}
\catcode`\_=13
\def\MyText{tat_sat śrī_bhagavān_uvāca}% _ not expanded here
% Sanskrit is the default language, no need to change the font
% As default, we have the transliteration, we have to define _
\def_{\space}
\MyText
{% Devanagari, redefine _ and add mapping
\def_{}
\addfontfeature{Mapping=RomDev}
\MyText
}
% Transliteration again
\MyText
\end{document}
The PDF is attached.
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