Fwd: [XeTeX] selecting feature in Devanagari MT with fontspec

[Yves Codet]

By mistake I sent this message directly to Somadeva. Here it is again 
(it might interest Will).

Début du message réexpédié :

> De: Yves Codet <ycodet at club-internet.fr>
> Date: 9 août 2005 13:45:08 GMT+02:00
> À: somadeva vasudeva <somadevah at aol.com>
> Objet: Rép : [XeTeX] selecting feature in Devanagari MT with fontspec
>
> Hello.
>
> Le 8 août 05, à 11:17, somadeva vasudeva a écrit :
>>
>> I had slightly more success when I put another set of brackets around 
>> your def.:
>>
>> \newcommand{\dev}[1]{{\devanagarifont #1}}
>>
>
> Thanks a lot, it does work with the two Devanagari fonts I've tried 
> (Devanagari MT, Sanskrit 2003): the French text is now displayed with 
> Lucida Grande. In fact I could write my text normally, since Sanskrit 
> 2003 includes Latin script, but I don't like the look of it and I 
> wanted to use Devanagari MT instead. I prefer the last font for 
> Sanskrit proper. For Vedic it's a different matter; placement of 
> accents is very bad with Devanagari MT and Sanskrit 2003 is the only 
> suitable font I know of.
>
> Maybe Will will want to do something about the extra brackets :)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Yves
>