[XeTeX] Sanskrit hyphenation with XeLatex

Sreenivasa Guttal sreenivasa.guttal at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 15:39:17 CET 2009


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:

>
> My fontspec manual (for version v1.18) has on page #13:
>
>        \fontspec[FakeBold=1.5]{Charis SIL} ABCxyz
>
> Your supposed not to choose an OpenType or TrueType font feature
> (which obviously does not exist in your fonts) but an artificial
> mechanism that *transforms* a given shape.
>

Thanks. This work:), but there is a catch:(
i.e the syllable gets broken in to multile characters
ex: शक्ति becomes श् क् त् (space is mine).
Besides there is distortion of characters. Above, इ is missing.

Thanks.
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