[XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

Neal Delmonico ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 11 05:07:56 CEST 2011


Thanks!  How would one set it up so that the English portions are  
hyphenated according to English rules and the transliteration is  
hyphenated according to Sanskrit rules?

Best

Neal

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:40:51 -0500, Zdenek Wagner  
<zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/9/11 Neal Delmonico <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net>:
>> Here is the source files for the pdf.  Sorry to take so long to send  
>> them.
>>
> Your default language for polygliglossia is defined as English. You
> switch to Sanskrit only inside the \skt macro. The text in Devanagari
> is therefore hyphenated according to Sanskrit rules but the
> transliterated text is hyphenated according to the English rules. You
> have to switch the language to Sanskrit also for the transliterated
> text.
>
>> Best
>>
>> Neal
>>
>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:53:42 -0500, Mojca Miklavec
>> <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 00:39, Neal Delmonico wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here is an example of what I mean in the pdf attached.
>>>
>>> Do I get it right that hyphenation is working, it is just that it
>>> misses a lot of valid hyphenation points?
>>>
>>> You should talk to Yves Codet, the author of Sanskrit patterns.
>>>
>>> But PLEASE: do post example of your code when you ask for help. If you
>>> don't send the source, it is not clear whether you are in fact using
>>> Sanskrit patterns or if you are falling back to English when you try
>>> to switch fonst. You could just as well sent us PDF with French
>>> hyphenation enabled and claim that TeX is buggy since it doesn't
>>> hyphenate right.
>>>
>>> Mojca
>>>
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