<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Long time ago I wrote a small package that was not worth uploading to CTAN but did the job for me when I had to use Garamond and still be able to transliterate Arabic from an input document that was already encoded in UTF-8 (my editor has custom key mappings for that). With that package, characters such as ṭ (U+1E6D), when not present in a font, would be automatically composed by XeTeX in the traditional way. I attach it here, in case it might be useful to others.<br><br></div><div>In general I try to avoid using such tricks, but as I said, sometimes you just have no choice.<br></div><div><br></div>Best regards,<br></div>François Charette<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-14 8:28 GMT+02:00 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hanneder@staff.uni-marburg.de" target="_blank">hanneder@staff.uni-marburg.de</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you all for the valuable comments, I learnt quite a bit on XeTeX!<br>
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Like Dominic I also thought out of loyality to use a Zapf font. I like<br>
and have once used Aldus, so let us hope the otf-version contains all<br>
the glyphs needed.<br>
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Best<br>
Jürgen<br>
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Datum: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:18:23 +0200<br>
Von: Dominik Wujastyk <<a href="mailto:wujastyk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wujastyk@gmail.com</a>><br>
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An: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <<a href="mailto:xetex@tug.org" target="_blank">xetex@tug.org</a>><div><div class="h5"><br>
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I think both Junicode and LM have charsets that cover Indological use<br>
well. Personally, I'm not so keen on Times-like fonts, so I tend not to<br>
use Junicode. I have done books with CM (<>LM) fonts in the past, and I<br>
have the highest respect for Don Knuth's work and the Modern style, but<br>
again, my current tastes are towards more classic styles like Bembo,<br>
Palatino, Baskerville, etc. With Hermann Zapf's recent passing, I feel<br>
some loyalty to using Palatino at the moment.<br>
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Sanskrit 2003 is my favourite font containing Devanagari, if give a little<br>
horizontal stretching*, and it also contains a Roman font (Times-Roman<br>
like). So it's quite convenient for typesetting mixed Roman/Nagari text in<br>
a simple way, especially since the hyphenation tables for Sanskrit contain<br>
both Devanagari and Roman at once.<br>
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Best,<br>
Dominik<br>
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* For using the Devanagari on its own:<br>
\setmainfont[FakeStretch=1.08,<br>
Script=Devanagari,<br>
Language=Sanskrit,<br>
Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit]<br>
{Sanskrit 2003}<br>
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On 13 June 2015 at 13:26, Nathan Sidoli <<a href="mailto:nathan.sidoli@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">nathan.sidoli@utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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Dear Dominik,<br>
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Do you have any opinion on Junicode or Latin Modern for transliteration<br>
from Indic languages?<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Nathan<br>
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FG Indologie u. Tibetologie<br>
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