<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm not sure what more to say, Phil. My comments arise out of my orientation to end-users (including myself), not the internals of the OT language or the "you can do anything" strengths of TeX. I'm interested in transparent terminology that makes it obvious to a user, for example, which hyphenation table is active at any particular moment in a document.</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">The fact that Script=Gujarati means slightly different things in different macros, for example, as Ulrika pointed out, is extremely unhelpful to serious authors who aren't TeX hackers.</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><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 16 February 2017 at 10:57, 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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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes, and it's this very
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Now /I/ am confused (a not-uncommon state as my 70th birthday
approaches with ever-increasing speed). Are you saying (a) that my
assumption is a common assumption, but is wrong (in which case, what
/does/ Polyglossia mean by "\sanskritfont); or (b) that my
assumption is correct (and if so, in what way is it unhelpful ?).
I understand that one may wish to set Sanskrit in a number of fonts
within a single text, but TeX is a dynamic language and one can
(surely) re-define "\sanskritfont" just as often as one chooses, can
one not ? In my own work, I routinely re-define (e.g.,)
"\romanfont", "\italicfont" and so on any number of times, to
reflect what the intended expansion of those control sequences are
at any particular point in the document. <br>
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More importantly (IMHO) do you agree that the terminology originates
not within Polyglossia but within the Opentype specification, in
which case (just as with Unicode) we must surely learn to live with
it rather than rail against its deficiencies.<span class=""><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Also, it's common for academics
to use multiple scripts for Sanskrit within a single document
(typically Devanagari and Latin transliteration). <br>
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I /think/ that this is covered by what I wrote above, but if I am
wrong, please correct me.<br>
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