On 9/19/2010 7:39 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote:
I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in Devanagari
which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows up correctly in
(out of the box) TeXworks. Both in gvim and emacs Devanagari will be
shown but not correctly (at least in case of uktvaa). At this point in
time I'm not quite sure if I need some sort of customization for both
gvim and emacs I perhaps do not know of.
It's not clear what you mean by "out of the box TeXworks." TeXworks
supports both Xe(La)TeX and older pre-Unicode (La)TeX. If you typeset
with Xe(La)TeX, then you are using a Unicode-based, OT font. Or perhaps
you are using an older LaTeX package for Devanagari and typesetting with
pdfLaTeX. I don't know about gvim and emacs, since I'm not a Linux
user, but if they don't support Unicode text entry and Xe(La)TeX then
you couldn't use the same OT font you used if you typeset with Xe(La)TeX
in TeXworks.
course, without Devanagari support, you will see little boxes rather
than the appropriate characters. But if one is typing only a word of
Devanagari here and there, perhaps that's OK.
I do not like that. Then I rather would like to use
transliteration.
There are a number of OT fonts around that support both Latin and
Devanagari; hopefully you can find one you like for editing as well as
final typesetting. (Sorry, I don't use Devanagari myself, so I can't
point to specific ones.)
David
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