[XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit

[Dominik Wujastyk]

So why does Polyglossia make \devanagarifont and \sanskritfont equivalent?
There should be no such entity as \sanskritfont.  Sanskrit isn't a font or
a script, it's a language.

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On 14 February 2017 at 07:59, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-02-14 15:29 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>
>>
>>
>> Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>>
>> Even if this works, I am unhappy with the terminological confusion
>> between scripts and languages.  This seems to be built in to Polyglossia.
>>
>> Is this not, rather, a feature of Opentype [1, 2] fonts, where one writes
>> (in XeTeX, for example)
>>
>>     \font \thisfont = "Whatever:script=xxx;language=yyy" ?
>>
>
> Yes, that's right. \language has been in TeX for a long time. Its role is
> to switch hyphenation patterns and the packages as Babel and Polyglossia
> switch other parameters in addition, \lefthyphenmin, \righthyphenmin,
> \frenchspacing etc. Script is defined in OpenType. This consists of a set
> of rules used to render the series of Unicode codepoints to glyphs. These
> rules are not defined by Sanskrit as such, because, for instance, the
> Malayalam script contains two-part matras but Devanagari does not have such
> a feature. The rendering rules are independent of the language, if you use
> Devanagari, you will use the same rendering rules for Hindi, Marathi,
> Nepali.
>
>
>> Philip Taylor
>> --------
>> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm
>> [2] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm
>>
>>
>>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
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