[XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

[Dominik Wujastyk]

oh, I completely misunderstood your question, Phil.

The answer is: none.  It's a rendering artefact.

Dominik

On 2 October 2011 23:47, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/10/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> >
> >
> > Cyril Niklaus wrote:
> >
> >> Because that's how his name is spelled.  You have guttural, palatal,
> >> retroflex and dental n in Devanāgarī, respectively ङ ṅa
> >> ; ञ ña; ण ṇa and न na.
> >
> > Yes, but all "n" variants are normally the same size, modulo the
> diacritics.
> >
> Its not so uncommon that two fonts with the same design size have
> different x-height. If your computer has to select one character from
> a different font because it does not exist in your main font, such
> discrepancies can be expected. At my computer ṅ appears lower. I do
> not know where fonconfig takes it from, probably from the John Smith's
> fonts.
>
> >> The guttural na is transcribed using a superscript dot, but maybe you do
> >> not have it in a standard font, and your MUA used whatever font was
> >> available, therefore this extra height you're talking about.  I'm not
> sure
> >> if I've correctly understood you, to be honest.
> >
> > Agreed : I have changed my font preferences for "Other languages"
> > (odd way of having to tell it which font to use for UTF-8 !),
> > and now all four n variants are the same height.
> >
> > Philip Taylor
> >
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