[XeTeX] babel

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Fontspec manual, para 10.13:

In rare situations users may want to mechanically distort the shapes of the
glyphs in
the current font such as shown in Example 37. Please don’t overuse these
features;
they are not a good alternative to having the real shapes.
If values are omitted, their defaults are as shown above.
If you want the bold shape to be faked automatically, or the italic shape to
be slanted automatically, use the AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant features.
For
example, the following two invocations are equivalent:
\fontspec[AutoFakeBold=1.5]{Charis SIL}
\fontspec[BoldFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]{Charis SIL}
If both of the AutoFake... features are used, then the bold italic font
will also be
faked.
The FakeBold and AutoFakeBold features are only available with the XETEX
engine and will be ignored in LuaTEX.



On 5 September 2012 18:53, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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