[XeTeX] Fontspec mappings causing errors in ToC/chapter-headings in memoir class documents

[Shrisha Rao]

El dic 20, 2010, a las 8:52 p.m., Dominik Wujastyk escribió:

> I fail to understand your point.  Pre-modern mathematics from South Asia is almost all written in Sanskrit.  

But not written in modern algebraic/arithmetic/set-theoretic notation; it contains Sanskrit equivalents of statements like "the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides."

> If you edit and publish one of these works - as many do - you need the math capabilities of TeX.  Hayashi's edition of the Bakhshali MS contains both an edition of the Sanskrit text from the codex unicus and a translation of it into English.  Both parts of Hayashi's work used TeX's math capabilities extensively.  Most editions are like this.

These would count as contemporary translations of Sanskrit works, or presentations of math from Sanskrit works, which I already mentioned.

Regards,

Shrisha Rao

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> On 20 December 2010 15:43, Shrisha Rao <shrao at nyx.net> wrote:
> El dic 20, 2010, a las 8:02 p.m., Dominik Wujastyk escribió:
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> > Actually, the famous edition of the Sanskrit Bakhshali manuscript, on medieval Indian mathematics, by Takao Hayashi was typset entirely in TeX.  So was the recent book, History of Indian Mathematics, by Kim Plofker.
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> I did not know that, but it makes sense.
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> > In fact, TeX is the tool of choice for most people working at the forefront of the history of Indian mathematics.
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> TeX is most common for people writing any kind of mathematics, including engineers, physicists, and computer scientists.  However, my point was slightly different -- in a text that is almost entirely in Sanskrit (not a contemporary translation of a Sanskrit work or a work presented mathematics originally found in a Sanskrit text), there is unlikely to be much use for math notation.
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> Regards,
> 
> Shrisha Rao
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> > Dominik
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> > On 20 December 2010 15:28, Shrisha Rao <shrao at nyx.net> wrote:
> > El dic 20, 2010, a las 5:05 p.m., Ulrike Fischer escribió:
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> > > Am Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:55:07 +0530 schrieb Shrisha Rao:
> > >
> > >> I tried inserting the \catcode`\^=11, etc., right after
> > >> \begin{document} and that seems to work.
> > >
> > > As long as you don't use ^ in math. In general it is better to keep
> > > such changes local.
> >
> > Not very likely that math mode superscript/power notation will need to be used in Sanskrit texts, but I see your point.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shrisha Rao
> >
> > > Ulrike Fischer
> >
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