[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation

[Yves Codet]

Hello Jonathan.

I'm reopening an old thread about Sanskrit hyphenation. As you know 
there will probably never be any Sanskrit hyphenation patterns included 
in standard TeX, since Devanagari packages use preprocessors to handle 
hyphenation. Thanks to Will and you, it has become very easy to write 
in Sanskrit with XeTeX; the only missing thing is hyphenation.

You perhaps remember that you helped me to write the attached file 
after your Hindi hyphenation patterns. I tested that "sanhyph.tex" for 
some time and I didn't notice anything wrong; it should also work for 
Prakrit but so far I haven't had the opportunity to test it with those 
languages. Well, I presume you've guessed my request. If such patterns 
were included in XeTeX and an entry added to "language.dat", users (I 
suppose I wouldn't be the only one) wouldn't have to compile their own 
format (and recompile it each time they update). Do you think it 
possible (hoping it wouldn't be too much work)?

The following question is for Will. How could the command 
"\language=\sanskrit" be included in a font selection with Fontspec?

Thanks in advance. Best wishes,

Yves

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