[XeTeX] babel

François Patte francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr
Wed Sep 5 18:30:39 CEST 2012


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Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <listas at tex-tipografia.com>:
>> François,
>>
>>
>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex.
>>>
>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have
>>> any chance to succeed?
>>
> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but
> for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. You can
> input the Devanagari text either directly in UTF-8 or in a
> transliteration (including Velthuis) using the xetex-devanagari
> package. You can request transliteration from Velthuis by
> Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit (Mapping=velthuis is used for Hindi, you
> will have to write explicitly viramas after the final consonants).
> There are several Devanagari fonts available, for instance Nakula and
> Sahadeva by John Smith or GNU FreeFont. You need at least release
> 20120503, in older releases the Devanagari block is incorrect. This
> release is already packaged in TeX Live 2012. Devanagari in FreeSans
> is derived from Gargi, thus it does not contain all Sanskrit
> conjuncts, FreeSerif contains Velthuis glyphs. When the font is
> loaded, it even obeys switching Language=Sanskrit and Language=Hindi
> (the latter coresponding to the @modernhindi instruction in devnag).
> Moreover, GNU FreeFont is most probably the only font with correct
> spacing of Devanagari punctuation. I would certainly use Polyglossia +
> GNU FreeSerif in XeLaTeX.

I installed texlive-2012 and, I'm trying FreeSerif fonts. As far as I
can see, there are no italics for devanagari, am I right?

Will it be available some day?

Thanks


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