[XeTeX] xetex-itrans map for Gujarati

Himanshu Pota himanshu.pota at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 11:54:57 CET 2015


Arial Unicode MS looks better than Shruti and other Gujarati fonts but
Arial doesn't have LLi and LLI ! Can microsoft be persuaded to make the
font complete?

Thanks.

On 2 January 2015 at 21:34, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Line 281 in map should be
>
> K > hkha
>
> I can send you the  updated files - useful only if you use K for kh with
> nukta in your input.
>
>
>
> ShreeDevi
> ____________________________________________________________
> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Himanshu Pota <himanshu.pota at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This seems perfect. Thanks.
>>
>> On 2 January 2015 at 21:19, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Attached are updated files for ITRANS to Unicode gujarati mapping for
>>> Xetex, including fixes for some of the issues listed by Himanshu.
>>>
>>> It DOES NOT have support for older ITRANS encoding scheme for ga^r and
>>> Rga - use rga and gRRI instead.
>>>
>>> Shrisha, you could include it in the next release of xetex-itrans.
>>>
>>> ShreeDevi
>>> ____________________________________________________________
>>> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:14 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Shrisha,
>>>>
>>>> It should work with unicode gujarati fonts, though I have tried only
>>>> with Shruti font on windows.
>>>>
>>>> Himanshu wanted a map for gujarati text to use with xetex, hence I made
>>>> this. I have tested it with a small sanskrit text sample converted to
>>>> gujarati script. He has noted some errors / missing mappings from the map -
>>>> I'll take a look at it in a couple of days.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> ShreeDevi
>>>> ____________________________________________________________
>>>> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Shrisha Rao <shrao at dvaita.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There seems to be some problem with the itrans-sguj mapping; it
>>>>> produces gibberish with every Gujarati font I tried.  The other mapping
>>>>> produces a readable output but I cannot tell if it is correct, because I
>>>>> only have Sanskrit texts to run, nothing in Gujarati.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Shrisha Rao
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:14 PM, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Attached are the .map and .tec files for ITRANS input to Unicode
>>>>>> gujarati conversion for use with Xelatex.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also attached is a sample test file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know if you notice any errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ShreeDevi
>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________
>>>>>> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Himanshu Pota
>>
>>
>


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Himanshu Pota
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