[XeTeX] Xelatex, kannada, sanskrit and ligatures

Harish Gopala harish.gopala at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 15:03:19 CET 2011


Thanks for that, I got it working exactly right.

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Harish

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 26/02/11 06:39, Harish Gopala wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the problem with Xelatex. When I compile the below file using
> > xelatex, it complains a little while compiling, but the ligatures are
> > all wrong in the output pdf file.
>
> Saying that the ligatures are all wrong isn't too helpful. Do you mean
> that the ligatures are not forming (likely) or that the wrong ligatures
> are forming (less likely).
>
> Please help. The source is as below:
> > ----------------------
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > \usepackage{fontspec}
> > \newfontfamily{\Kannada}{Tunga}
> > \newfontfamily{\Devanagari}{CDAC-GISTSurekh}
>
> Without seeing the output or knowing the fonts, it is likely that you
> have to turn script features on in fontspec. Try rewriting the font
> calls with
>
> \newfontfamily{\Kannada}[Script=Kannada]{Tunga}
> \newfontfamily{\Devanagari}[Script=Devanagari]{CDAC-GISTSurekh}
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Gareth.
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