[XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit

Tue Feb 14 21:41:07 CET 2017

Yes, exactly. I'm using this newcommand to get devanagari with Sanskrit 
hyphenation:

\newcommand{\dn}[1]{\textsanskrit{\devanagarifont{#1}}}

I also use this for occasional romanized Sanskrit passages within 
English prose, to switch the hyphenation from English to Sanskrit and 
also get the italics along:

\newcommand{\romskt}[1]{\textsanskrit{\emph{#1}}}

Cheers,

Alessanro

On 02/14/2017 03:00 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> Nice to see you here, Alessandro!  Many thanks for your code.  So it's 
> the \begin{sanskrit} that switches on the correct hyphenation. And the 
> string "devanagari" in \devanagarifont is the same as switching on 
> [Script=Devanagari], I guess.
>
> So for the common situation like this:
>
>      संस्कृतभाषा (/saṃskṛtabhāṣā/)
>
> one could construct
>
>     \newcommand{\skt}[1]{%
>
>     \begin{sanskrit}{\devanagarifont #1} (\emph{{\sanskritfont
>     #1}})\end{sanskrit}%
>
>     }
>
> and get the right scripts and hyphenations.
>
> Even if this works, I am unhappy with the terminological confusion 
> between scripts and languages.  This seems to be built in to 
> Polyglossia.  As we both know, many languages are written in 
> Devanagari, and Sanskrit is written in many scripts, including Latin. 
>  This isn't very clearly expressed in Polyglossia.
>
>
> Must rush,
> Best, and greetings to the family,
> Dominik
>
>
> 
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> ,
>
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>
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>
> On 14 February 2017 at 04:01, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     As already mentioned, Script=Devanagari switches the correct
>     shaping of the font so that ki appears as कि and not as क followed
>     by ि matra. Try to enter किताब with and without it and you will
>     see the difference.
>
>
>     Zdeněk Wagner
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>     2017-02-14 11:30 GMT+01:00 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de
>     <mailto:news3 at nililand.de>>:
>
>         Am Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:47:09 -0700 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk:
>
>         > Does "Script=Devanagari" turn on the hypy-sa hyphenation fil
>
>         No. hyphenation patterns are turned on with \selectlanguage{XXX}
>         commands  (and similar commands from polyglossia, babel or the
>         engines).
>
>         --
>         Ulrike Fischer
>         http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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