Thank you all for the valuable comments, I learnt quite a bit on XeTeX!
Like Dominic I also thought out of loyality to use a Zapf font. I like and have once used Aldus, so let us hope the otf-version contains all the glyphs needed. Best Jürgen ----- Nachricht von Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> --------- Datum: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:18:23 +0200 Von: Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> Antwort an: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] fonts and diacritics An: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <[email protected]>
I think both Junicode and LM have charsets that cover Indological use well. Personally, I'm not so keen on Times-like fonts, so I tend not to use Junicode. I have done books with CM (<>LM) fonts in the past, and I have the highest respect for Don Knuth's work and the Modern style, but again, my current tastes are towards more classic styles like Bembo, Palatino, Baskerville, etc. With Hermann Zapf's recent passing, I feel some loyalty to using Palatino at the moment. Sanskrit 2003 is my favourite font containing Devanagari, if give a little horizontal stretching*, and it also contains a Roman font (Times-Roman like). So it's quite convenient for typesetting mixed Roman/Nagari text in a simple way, especially since the hyphenation tables for Sanskrit contain both Devanagari and Roman at once. Best, Dominik * For using the Devanagari on its own: \setmainfont[FakeStretch=1.08, Script=Devanagari, Language=Sanskrit, Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit] {Sanskrit 2003} On 13 June 2015 at 13:26, Nathan Sidoli <[email protected]> wrote:Dear Dominik, Do you have any opinion on Junicode or Latin Modern for transliteration from Indic languages? Best, Nathan
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