Re: [XeTeX] TECkit maps for ISO 15919 to Brahmic scripts

I use Somdev's RomDev TECkit for my IAST->Nagari input-output. No complaints so far. Thanks for all the other scripts, of course, and the documentation. (Yay, documentation!) Best, Dominik ​ -- Subscriptions, A

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit maps for ISO 15919 to Brahmic scripts

Hi, Zdeněk, Good question. I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that historically it went the other way. That is, for most of its history as a written language, Sanskrit was routinely written in whatever script was used for the local vernacular, but that in recent centuries it's

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit maps for ISO 15919 to Brahmic scripts

Hi David, my knowledge is not deep enough so correct me if I am wrong. Sankrit is written originally in Devanagari. Tibetan script contains retroflex consonants that are not used in the Tibetan language but were introduced so that Sanskrit texts could be rewritten in the Tibetan script in such a w