[XeTeX] Polyglossia error(s) for Marathi language

Sat Apr 22 07:04:35 CEST 2017

Thank you, Zdenek.  It's exactly as you say.

Sanskrit is a language that is recorded in several different writing
systems.  In Bengal, Sanskrit is written and printed in the Bengali
alphabet.  In Karnataka, it is written and printed in the Kannada
alphabet.  And so on.  About fourteen writing systems are used for writing
and printing Sanskrit language works.

It's like Serbian, which may be written in Cyrillic or in the Latin writing
systems, but more so.

(in my patch file, the %%DW strings in the documentation should be deleted.)

I'm afraid I don't know how to work the pull thing you refer to, so I'd be
grateful if you would do it, Maïeul.  But if it's a problem, I can surely
learn :-)

Best wishes,
Dominik

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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

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On 21 April 2017 at 03:20, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is not related to Devanagari as a script but to a language. Sanskrit
> was originally written in the Devanagari (or maybe even in Brahmi, I am not
> such an expert) but since Hindu and Buddhists texts and prayers use
> Snaskrit up to now and people form other parts of the Indian subcontinent
> need not know Devanagari, Sanskrit is now written in other scripts. Even
> the Tibetan scripts contains charcters not used in the Tibetan language but
> they were included so that the Sanskrit texts could be written also in the
> Tibetan script. In the textbooks of Snascrit and in dictionaries a Latin
> transliteration is used, therefore the support is important. The
> modification suggested by Dominik gives an information saying which scripts
> are supported by the package so far.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> 2017-04-21 10:52 GMT+02:00 Maïeul Rouquette <maieul at maieul.net>:
>
>> could you explain me the aim of this change? I don't know anything in
>> Denavagari, and I would like to add a good message in my pull request (but
>> maybe, it would be better you do the pull request)
>> Le 20 avr. 2017 à 21:51, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > If there are going to be some edits to polyglossia.dtx, I can offer
>> this small patch that I've made to my local polyglossia.dtx file.  I would
>> also be interested in comments or criticisms.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Dominik
>> >
>> > --- /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/source/latex/polyglossia/
>> polyglossia.dtx
>> > +++ /home/dom/Dropbox/localtexmf/tex/testingPolyglossia/polyglossia.dtx
>> > @@ -773,6 +773,11 @@
>> >  %    Sanskrit texts in scripts other than Devanagari.
>> >  % ^^ATODO \item Numerals <<<<
>> >  %    \end{itemize}
>> > +%% DW
>> > +%  \pkg{polyglossia} currently supports the typesetting of Sanskrit in
>> the following
>> > +%  writing systems: Devanagari, Gujarati, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada,
>> Telugu, and Latin.
>> > +%  Use the ¦Script=¦ option to select the writing system you want.
>> > +%% DW
>> >  %
>> >  % \subsection{serbian}\label{serbian}
>> >  % \textbf{Options}:
>> > @@ -7085,6 +7090,11 @@
>> >  \def\fontsetup at sanskrit@Telugu{%
>> >    \def\xpg at scripttag@sanskrit{telu}%
>> >    \xpg at fontsetup@nonlatin{sanskrit}}
>> > +%% DW
>> > +\def\fontsetup at sanskrit@Latin{%
>> > +    \def\xpg at scripttag@sanskrit{latn}%
>> > +    \xpg at fontsetup@latin{sanskrit}}
>> > +%% DW
>> >
>> >  \setkeys{sanskrit}{Script} %sets the default for Devanagari
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Professor Dominik Wujastyk,
>> > Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity,
>> > Department of History and Classics,
>> > University of Alberta, Canada.
>> > South Asia at the U of A: sas.ualberta.ca
>> >
>> >
>> > On 20 April 2017 at 03:01, Maïeul <maieul at maieul.net> wrote:
>> > Le 20.04.17 à 07:26, RD Holkar a écrit :
>> > Dear Urlike Fischer,
>> >
>> > thanks a lot! This, exactly, was the error. Things are running well now!
>> >
>> > With best regards,
>> > -Rohit.
>> >
>> >
>> > I opened a pull request
>> >
>> > https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/pull/180
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Maïeul
>> > http://blog.maieul.net
>> > http://geekographie.maieul.net
>> >
>> >
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