[XeTeX] XeTeX & sanskrit : how to sart

Gildas Hamel gweltaz at ucsc.edu
Tue Aug 14 23:27:19 CEST 2012


* Skriv a reas Helios (helios at frmail.net):
  |>  
  |>  Dear All,
  |>  
  |>  For example, at this page
  |>  http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/mbs/mbs01001.htm
  |>  you can see sanskrit text in the left column.
  |>  
  |>  A little select followed by a copy/paste is enough.
  |>  
  |>  This font is unicode type and the file is in UTF-8
  |>  
  |>  In XeTeX, the same way product only error or unreadable result.
  |>  
  |>  How can i process with XeTeX ?

%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\setotherlanguage{sanskrit}
%\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,
%    Scale=MatchLowercase]{Junicode} % Hoefler Text, etc.
\newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit2003} % ou autre police 

\begin{document}
Texte en français, suivi de ce texte copié sur la page web:
\textsanskrit{नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरॊत्तमम}

Retour au français.
Forme versifiée:
\begin{sanskrit}
    \begin{verse}
 0 नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरॊत्तमम\\
      देवीं सरस्वतीं चैव ततॊ जयम उदीरयेत
    \end{verse}
\end{sanskrit}
\end{document}

--Gildas



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