[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

Neal Delmonico ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 7 16:20:17 CEST 2012


I use the RomDev map, so this problem does not affect me.  It also
allows me to easily switch back and forth between Devanagari and Roman
transliteration when I need to.

N

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 10:48 +0200, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 07/09/2012 07:28, Neal Delmonico a écrit :
> > find them and voila! suddenly XeLaTeX could find them too.
> <couic>
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> > Sadly, I see that FreeSerif does not handle some of the common
> > conjuncts well. Guttural n and g do not combine, nor do d and g, for
> > instance.
> 
> these two work for me...
> 
> But, I think there is some bug in velthuis-sanskrit.map : ~n is not
> taken into account. If you type pa~nca, you get in devanagari: pa nca (I
> think that the space is an unbreakable space).
> 
> F.P.
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