[Tugindia] Tamil typing in latex
P. P. Narayanaswami
swami at mun.ca
Sun Aug 25 22:26:10 CEST 2013
The Tamil unicode font-"Lohit Tamil" font is not installed by default in your
Windows set-up (it is available by default in Ubuntu Linux).
Try using "Latha" font instead, which is available by default in Windows,
and it works fine (I just tested).
Quoting SIVAKUMAR R <skarg_ind at hotmail.com>:
> not working sir,
> this is the error message
>
> fontspec error: "font-not-found"
> !
> ! The font "Lohit-Tamil" cannot be found.
> !
> ! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
> !
> ! For immediate help type H <return>.
> !...............................................
> l.12 ...tfamily{\lohit}[Script=Tamil]{Lohit-Tamil}
> |'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> | A font might not be found for many reasons.
> | Check the spelling, where the font is installed etc. etc.
> |
> | When in doubt, ask someone for help!
> |...............................................
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> *************************************************
> * fontspec warning: "script-not-exist"
> *
> * Font 'Lohit-Tamil' does not contain script 'Tamil'.
> *************************************************
> \g_fontspec_family_Lohit-Tamil_int=\count139
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !
> ! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
> !
> ! The font "Lohit-Tamil" cannot be found.
> !
> ! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
> !
> ! For immediate help type H <return>.
> !...............................................
> l.12 ...tfamily{\lohit}[Script=Tamil]{Lohit-Tamil}
> |'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> | A font might not be found for many reasons.
> | Check the spelling, where the font is installed etc. etc.
> |
> | When in doubt, ask someone for help!
> |...............................................
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/B/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> .................................................
> . fontspec info: "no-font-shape"
> .
> . Could not resolve font Lohit-Tamil/B (it probably doesn't exist).
> .................................................
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/I/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> .................................................
> . fontspec info: "no-font-shape"
> .
> . Could not resolve font Lohit-Tamil/I (it probably doesn't exist).
> .................................................
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> Requested font "Lohit-Tamil/BI/ICU" at 10.0pt
> -> font not found, using "nullfont"
> .................................................
> . fontspec info: "no-font-shape"
> .
> . Could not resolve font Lohit-Tamil/BI (it probably doesn't exist).
> .................................................
> .................................................
> . fontspec info: "defining-font"
> .
> . Font family 'Lohit-Tamil(0)' created for font 'Lohit-Tamil' with options
> . [Script=Tamil].
> .
> . This font family consists of the following shapes:
> .
> . * 'normal' with NFSS spec.:
> . <->"Lohit-Tamil/ICU:"
> .................................................
>
>
> > From: cvr at river-valley.org
> > Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:04:58 +0530
> > To: tugindia at tug.org
> > Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Tamil typing in latex
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:26 PM, SIVAKUMAR R <skarg_ind at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I am using miketex(windows 7) with texmaker as editor.
> > > I want to type tamil in my documents along with english for prepearing
> > > bilingual question papers.
> > > So pls suggest about using other languages in latex.
> > >
> >
> > Given below is a small test file (the example is from Tamil Wikipedia):
> >
> > %<------------------------ begin --------------------------->
> >
> > \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> > \usepackage{amsmath}
> >
> > \usepackage[margin=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in,ignoreall]{geometry}
> > \pagestyle{empty}
> >
> > \usepackage{fontspec}
> > \usepackage{xltxtra}
> > \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle]{TeX Gyre
> > Pagella}
> > \newfontinstance\pal[Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle]{TeX Gyre Pagella}
> > \newfontfamily{\lohit}[Script=Tamil]{Lohit-Tamil}
> > \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > %\fontsize{9}{12}\selectfont
> > \parskip 6pt
> >
> > \raggedright
> >
> > \lohit
> >
> >
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> > z & = & -2
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> >
> > \end{document}
> >
> > %<--------------------------- end ------------------------------->
> >
> > Please save this file and typeset using xelatex and see the result for
> > yourself. I have kept the pdf output of this source at this location (list
> > manager does not like attachments):
> >
> > http://download.river-valley.com/cvr/tamil.pdf
> >
> > Best regards
> > --
> > Radhakrishnan
> > River
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