You say "is". ("Is written l2r"). When was Avestan first written, as opposed to recited and passed orally from teacher to pupil? Was the earliest writing in Iran a direct ancestor of the present script? <Wikipedia moment> Ah, third century AD, Din Dabireh, etc.<br>
<br>In India, early Sanskrit works were not written down, for a period of at least a thousand years (ca. 1500 BC - 300 BC). The earliest writing used for Indian languages, Brahmi, was l2r, though with rare exceptions and some boustrophedon inscriptions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi">Kharosthi</a> script, though, also used for early writing in India, was r2l. Like Pahlavi, it is based on Aramaic models.<br>
<br>Best,<br>Dominik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 October 2011 06:37, Vafa Khalighi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vafaklg@gmail.com">vafaklg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">OTT: I did not know much about Sanskrit. It was interesting to know that it is a close relative of Avestan (the language that we Iranians spoke in ancient times) however Avestan is written from right to left.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/5 Zdenek Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2011/10/5 Arthur Reutenauer <<a href="mailto:arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org" target="_blank">arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org</a>>:<br>
<div>>> Thanks. I will try this and uncomment the \setotherlanguage{Sanskrit}. That<br>
>> way if there are any hyphenations in the Hindi verse, they will occur<br>
>> correctly. Am I correct in thinking this?<br>
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> You've got it mostly right. I was going to write a detailed and<br>
> intricate answer, but it's actually simpler to just say: wait for me to<br>
> fix the bug in Polyglossia, and you should be fine :-) Until then,<br>
> though, you need to make sure that any run of English text is preceded<br>
> by the right settings of \left- and \righthyphenmin, otherwise bad<br>
> things will happen -- as you've experienced.<br>
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> You've got me confused on one point, though: is it Sanskrit or Hindi<br>
> text you're typesetting? Not that it makes such a difference; and in<br>
> the latter case we don't have hyphenation patterns for transliterated<br>
> Hindi anyway, so the Sanskrit ones should do a reasonable job.<br>
><br>
</div>At least delmonico.pdf is Sanskrit. It seems to me as a part of Bhagavadgita.<br>
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