[XeTeX] Displaying Devanagari characters with virama

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyavana at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 18:53:14 CEST 2012


On 25/03/12 21:26, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> AFAIK lua(la)tex does not yet support Devanagari, it just displays the
> glyphs without using correctly all OpenType tables. Try eg word
> संक्षिप्त, i-matra will be at the wrong place.

lualatex erroneously gives saṃkṣapti whereas xelatex correctly gives 
saṃkṣipta.

You have saved me much vain searching and wondering.

Many thanks.

Chandra


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