[XeTeX] Beginner: Devanagari problems

[Alastair M. Paterson]

Hi Sven!

This is a very rushed repoonse but I am also very new to this and am 
using Devanagari. Maybe I had the same problem as ligatures were not 
connected properly. What corrected this was to use a font as follows:

\font\Kal="Kalimati:script=deva" at 16pt

Putting the script=deva in corrected the rendering.

If you need to install a font after MikTeX has been installed, install 
it through windows as you would any other font then go into the command 
prompt and run
fc-cache -f -v

This should make MikTeX recognise the new font.

Hope this helps.

Alastair

Sven Siegmund wrote:

>Hello, good people,
>
>yesterday I just started using the whole LaTeX thing, right away with
>XeTeX. I downloaded MiKTeX 2.7.2960, part of which is XeTeX. (So I
>think all versions of all my packages are the most current.)
>
>I am facing problems with typestting Devanagari. In Texmaker, in the
>UTF-16 encoded devanagari.tex document the Devanagari renders as this:
>http://siegmund.szm.sk/latex/devanagari.png
>(which is exactly as it should be)
>
>when I run "xelatex devanagari" in the resulting PDF the Devanagari
>sequencing is messed up and ligatures are messed up, too.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Here are my files:
>http://siegmund.szm.sk/latex/devanagari.tex
>http://siegmund.szm.sk/latex/devanagari.aux
>http://siegmund.szm.sk/latex/devanagari.log
>http://siegmund.szm.sk/latex/devanagari.pdf
>
>Bst regards,
>
>Sven
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