<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">So why does Polyglossia make \devanagarifont and \sanskritfont equivalent? There should be no such entity as \sanskritfont. Sanskrit isn't a font or a script, it's a language.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--</span><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor <a href="http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Dominik Wujastyk</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br>Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div><br></font><div><font size="1"><a href="http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Department of History and Classics</a><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">,</div></font></div><font size="1">University of Alberta, Canada<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><br></font></div><div><font size="1">South Asia at the U of A:</font><font size="1" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(17,85,204);display:inline"> </div><a href="http://sas.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sas.ualberta.ca</a><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2017 at 07:59, 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"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">2017-02-14 15:29 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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if this works, I am unhappy with the terminological
confusion between scripts and languages. This seems to be
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</span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Is this not, rather, a feature
of Opentype [1, 2] fonts, where one writes (in XeTeX, for example)<br>
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\font \thisfont = "Whatever:script=xxx;language=<wbr>yyy" ?<span class="m_-8988586299931536263gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Yes, that's right. \language has been in TeX for a long time. Its role is to switch hyphenation patterns and the packages as Babel and Polyglossia switch other parameters in addition, \lefthyphenmin, \righthyphenmin, \frenchspacing etc. Script is defined in OpenType. This consists of a set of rules used to render the series of Unicode codepoints to glyphs. These rules are not defined by Sanskrit as such, because, for instance, the Malayalam script contains two-part matras but Devanagari does not have such a feature. The rendering rules are independent of the language, if you use Devanagari, you will use the same rendering rules for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali.<br><br></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span class="m_-8988586299931536263gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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[1] <a class="m_-8988586299931536263gmail-m_-759386703086565271moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/typog<wbr>raphy/otspec/scripttags.htm</a><br>
[2] <a class="m_-8988586299931536263gmail-m_-759386703086565271moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/typog<wbr>raphy/otspec/languagetags.htm</a><br>
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