<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Fontspec manual, para 10.13:<br><br></font></font><div style="margin-left:40px"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">In rare situations users may want to mechanically distort the shapes of the glyphs in</font></font><br>
<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">the current font such as shown in Example 37. Please don’t overuse these features;</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">they are not a good alternative to having the real shapes.</font></font><br>
<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">If values are omitted, their defaults are as shown above.</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">If you want the bold shape to be faked automatically, or the italic shape to</font></font><br>
<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">be slanted automatically, use the AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant features. For</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">example, the following two invocations are equivalent:</font></font><br>
<div style="margin-left:40px"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">\fontspec[AutoFakeBold=1.5]{Charis SIL}</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">\fontspec[BoldFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]{Charis SIL}</font></font><br>
</div><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">If both of the AutoFake... features are used, then the bold italic font will also be</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">faked.</font></font><br><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The FakeBold and AutoFakeBold features are only available with the XETEX</font></font><br>
<font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">engine and will be ignored in LuaTEX.</font></font><br></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 September 2012 18:53, Zdenek Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012/9/5 François Patte <<a href="mailto:francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr">francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr</a>>:<br>
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> Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :<br>
>> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <<a href="mailto:listas@tex-tipografia.com">listas@tex-tipografia.com</a>>:<br>
>>> François,<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have<br>
>>>> any chance to succeed?<br>
>>><br>
>> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but<br>
>> for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. You can<br>
>> input the Devanagari text either directly in UTF-8 or in a<br>
>> transliteration (including Velthuis) using the xetex-devanagari<br>
>> package. You can request transliteration from Velthuis by<br>
>> Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit (Mapping=velthuis is used for Hindi, you<br>
>> will have to write explicitly viramas after the final consonants).<br>
>> There are several Devanagari fonts available, for instance Nakula and<br>
>> Sahadeva by John Smith or GNU FreeFont. You need at least release<br>
>> 20120503, in older releases the Devanagari block is incorrect. This<br>
>> release is already packaged in TeX Live 2012. Devanagari in FreeSans<br>
>> is derived from Gargi, thus it does not contain all Sanskrit<br>
>> conjuncts, FreeSerif contains Velthuis glyphs. When the font is<br>
>> loaded, it even obeys switching Language=Sanskrit and Language=Hindi<br>
>> (the latter coresponding to the @modernhindi instruction in devnag).<br>
>> Moreover, GNU FreeFont is most probably the only font with correct<br>
>> spacing of Devanagari punctuation. I would certainly use Polyglossia +<br>
>> GNU FreeSerif in XeLaTeX.<br>
><br>
> I installed texlive-2012 and, I'm trying FreeSerif fonts. As far as I<br>
> can see, there are no italics for devanagari, am I right?<br>
><br>
</div></div>Unfortunatelly they are missing. They can be created by geometrical<br>
slanting but I do not remember the "fontspec" keyword.<br>
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> Will it be available some day?<br>
><br>
</div>Only Steve White can answer this question.<br>
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> Thanks<br>
><br>
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