<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>the first thing to note is the wrong font name, it is not Lohit-Temil-Classical but Lohit Tamil Classical as you can find by fc-match:<br><br>$ fc-match -v LohitTamilClassical<br>Pattern has 32 elts (size 48)<br> family: "Lohit Tamil Classical"(s)<br> familylang: "en"(s)<br> style: "Regular"(s)<br> stylelang: "en"(s)<br> fullname: "Lohit Tamil Classical"(s)<br> fullnamelang: "en"(s)<br> slant: 0(i)(s)<br> weight: 80(i)(s)<br> width: 100(i)(s)<br> size: 12(f)(s)<br> pixelsize: 12.5(f)(s)<br> foundry: "unknown"(s)<br> antialias: FcTrue(w)<br> hintstyle: 2(i)(w)<br> hinting: FcTrue(w)<br> verticallayout: FcFalse(s)<br> autohint: FcTrue(w)<br> globaladvance: FcTrue(s)<br> file: "/usr/share/fonts/lohit-tamil-classical/Lohit-Tamil-Classical.ttf"(s)<br> index: 0(i)(s)<br> outline: FcTrue(s)<br> scalable: FcTrue(s)<br> dpi: 75(f)(s)<br> rgba: 5(i)(w)<br> scale: 1(f)(s)<br> charset: <br> 0000: 00000000 ffffffff f8000001 78000001 00000000 00000004 00800000 00800000<br> 0009: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000030 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000<br> 000b: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 d63dc7ec c3ffc718 00813dc7 07ffffc0<br> 0020: 33183000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000<br> 0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000<br> 0025: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000<br>(s)<br> lang: ta(s)<br> fontversion: 163840(i)(s)<br> capability: "otlayout:DFLT otlayout:deva otlayout:latn otlayout:taml"(s)<br> fontformat: "TrueType"(s)<br> embeddedbitmap: FcTrue(s)<br> decorative: FcFalse(s)<br><br></div>The fontspec package tries to guess similar names if the requested font is not found but it takes time. Anyway, the problem with numbers is caused by selection of a font that does not have them. It may need some tricks as I did in my multilingual book. Can you send me a small sample demonstrating the problem?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-28 17:06 GMT+01:00 Shakthi Kannan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shakthimaan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shakthimaan@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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--- On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Zdenek Wagner<br>
<span class=""><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
| the best way is to use the polyglossia package.<br>
</span>| ...<br>
<span class="">| set the languages by<br>
| \setdefaultlanguage{tamil}<br>
| \setotherlanguage{english}<br>
|<br>
</span><span class="">| either \textenglish{a few words} or<br>
</span>\--<br>
<br>
Worked. I have updated the code snippet that I used for future reference.<br>
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<a href="https://gist.github.com/shakthimaan/3dcfa64c3bd92ab2378d#gistcomment-1682685" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/shakthimaan/3dcfa64c3bd92ab2378d#gistcomment-1682685</a><br>
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When I use \frontmatter and \tableofcontents, the Roman numerals are<br>
appearing as square boxes. I am guessing this is because of the change<br>
in the default font. Any suggestion on how this should be configured?<br>
<br>
Many thanks!<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
SK<br>
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Shakthi Kannan<br>
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