[XeTeX] babel

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/5 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
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> Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <listas at tex-tipografia.com>:
>>> François,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have
>>>> any chance to succeed?
>>>
>> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but
>> for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. You can
>> input the Devanagari text either directly in UTF-8 or in a
>> transliteration (including Velthuis) using the xetex-devanagari
>> package. You can request transliteration from Velthuis by
>> Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit (Mapping=velthuis is used for Hindi, you
>> will have to write explicitly viramas after the final consonants).
>> There are several Devanagari fonts available, for instance Nakula and
>> Sahadeva by John Smith or GNU FreeFont. You need at least release
>> 20120503, in older releases the Devanagari block is incorrect. This
>> release is already packaged in TeX Live 2012. Devanagari in FreeSans
>> is derived from Gargi, thus it does not contain all Sanskrit
>> conjuncts, FreeSerif contains Velthuis glyphs. When the font is
>> loaded, it even obeys switching Language=Sanskrit and Language=Hindi
>> (the latter coresponding to the @modernhindi instruction in devnag).
>> Moreover, GNU FreeFont is most probably the only font with correct
>> spacing of Devanagari punctuation. I would certainly use Polyglossia +
>> GNU FreeSerif in XeLaTeX.
>
> I installed texlive-2012 and, I'm trying FreeSerif fonts. As far as I
> can see, there are no italics for devanagari, am I right?
>
Unfortunatelly they are missing. They can be created by geometrical
slanting but I do not remember the "fontspec" keyword.

> Will it be available some day?
>
Only Steve White can answer this question.

> Thanks
>
>
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