Yes, and it's this very assumption that is unhelpful, Phil, and leads to confusion. Also, it's common for academics to use multiple scripts for Sanskrit within a single document (typically Devanagari and Latin transliteration).
Best, Dominik On 14 February 2017 at 09:18, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > > So why does Polyglossia make \devanagarifont and \sanskritfont > equivalent? There should be no such entity as \sanskritfont. Sanskrit > isn't a font or a script, it's a language. > > I > *assume* (and as Dominik knows, I know nothing about Polyglossia > whatsoever) that "\sanskritfont" means "the font I wish used when I typeset > something written in the Sanskrit language". > > Philip Taylor >
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