[XeTeX] Beginner: Devanagari problems

[Sven Siegmund]

Thank you, JK, that helped. When I change the line to

\font\arial="Arial Unicode MS:script=deva" at 12pt

I get the desired result.

Thanks.

S.

> You need to give the option
>
>    [Script=Devanagari]
>
>  when loading a font through Fontspec in order to activate the
>  Devanagari OpenType shaping engine.
>
>  See the fontspec documentation for more...