<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes, and it's this very assumption that is unhelpful, Phil, and leads to confusion. Also, it's common for academics to use multiple scripts for Sanskrit within a single document (typically Devanagari and Latin transliteration). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dominik</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></font></div></div></div><div><span><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font size="1">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2017 at 09:18, Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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\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>
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I <b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>assume</b> (and as Dominik knows, I know nothing about Polyglossia
whatsoever) that "\sanskritfont" means "the font I wish used when I
typeset something written in the Sanskrit language".<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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