Greetings,<div><br></div><div>I'm working on producing a critical edition of a Sanskrit text using XeLaTex. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">In the edition, I wan to report cancellation marks in the manuscript with multiplication signs around the cancelled akshara, e.g. xकx. This works fine for consonants, but I can't get XeTex to render dependent vowels without the dotted circle. I've tried inputting it in every possible combination with a space (U+0020) and/or Zero Width Joiner (U+200D), but nothing seems to work. Is there any way to make XeTex display a dependent vowel without the circle?</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">Secondly, it seems Xetex doesn't render the common ligature त्र्य correctly for most freely available Devanagari fonts. I can only get shiDeva, Nakula, & Sahadeva to display it. Sanskrit 2003 has dedicated characters for ligatures in its Private Use Area, so it's possible (but time-consuming) to manually input them, but none of the other fonts do. In the attached sample I've only included the fonts I find most attractive, but all the others available on the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: small; color: rgb(14, 119, 74); line-height: 15px; "><a href="http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html">Wazu font gallery</a> </span>have the same problem. Ideally, I want to use a font like Surekh or Yogesh which includes a real bold font. With these 2 fonts I've noticed an additional problem: if ligatures with a superscribed "r" are preceded by a dependent vowel "i," the "r" gets moved to the "i." Is it possible to get these fonts to display correctly, or are they simply unusable in XeTex?</div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">Here's the tex input for my sample:</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">\documentclass{article}<p></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\usepackage{fontspec, xunicode, xltxtra}</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\usepackage{polyglossia}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\setotherlanguage{english}</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\setmainfont{Charis SIL}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\newfontfamily\sanskritfont [Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit 2003}</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\begin{document}</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{Sanskrit 2003:} स्वातन्त्र्यम्, स्वात\char"E178 म् , त्र्यक्षः, \char"E11Cक्षः $\times$\char"200D\char"093E$\times$ </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish {AA Nagari Shree L3:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, $\times$\char"200D\char"093E$\times$ </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{CDAC-GISTYogesh:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{CDAC-GISTYogesh}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, विसर्गः, $\times$\char"0020\char"093E$\times$ </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br></p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{CDAC-GISTSurekh:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{CDAC-GISTSurekh}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, विसर्गः, $\times$\char"0020\char"200D\char"093E$\times$ </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br></p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{shiDeva:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{shiDeva}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, $\times$\char"200D\char"093E$\times$</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{Nakula:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{Nakula}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, $\times$\char"200D\char"093E$\times$</p>
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<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\textenglish{Sahadeva:} \fontspec[Script=Devanagari]{Sahadeva}स्वातन्त्र्यम् , त्र्यक्षः, $\times$\char"200D\char"093E$\times$</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\end{document}</p></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">
Thank you for your help,</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">Leonard Brouwer</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">
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