I posted this to the XeTeX sourceforge tracker a couple of weeks ago,
and it was suggested that I also mention it here. The sourceforge
ticket is
https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/111/
and the zip file is
https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/111/attachment/xetex-indic-bug.zip
Cheers
Mike Maxwell's original post hasn't shown up here yet, so I'm lumping
two responses together.
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:24:49 -0600
> From: Bobby de Vos
> Reply-To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion."
>
> On 2015-05-22 10:49, maxwell wrote:
>
with other Devanagari fonts and
> see what happends?
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
> 2015-05-22 16:14 GMT+02:00 David M. Jones :
> > I posted this to the XeTeX sourceforge tracker a couple of weeks ago,
>
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 22:52:24 +0200
> From: Zdenek Wagner
> The requirement of the Indic specification is to display the dotted
> circle if the mark cannot be combined.
Aha! Thank you the pointer. I assume you're referring to this?
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/
\\
>
>
> tam̱̐ & ta + candrabindu + anudatta & \V{\1तँ॒} \\[\medskipamount]
>
>
> ta̍ḥ & ta + udatta + visarga & \R{\1त॑ः}\\
>
>
> taḥ̍ & ta + visarga + udatta & \B{\1तः॑} \\
>
>
> ta̱ḥ & ta + anudatta + visarga & \R{\1त॒ः}\\
>
In addition to the other fonts that have been mentioned here, version
2 of the STIX fonts, due out later this year, should provide a very
attractive option:
http://www.stixfonts.org/
They also have a less restrictive license than even the Brill fonts.
David.
P.S. Full disclosure: The AMS is
This is a sequel of sorts to a message I sent to the list a couple of
weeks ago where I mentioned that I've been experimenting with
typesetting Devanagari using XeTeX.
One part of the experiment was to develop a TECkit mapping to convert
Unicode-encoded IAST text into Devanagari. Then I stumbled
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
