-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : > 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <lis...@tex-tipografia.com>: >> François, >> >> >>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex. >>> >>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have >>> any chance to succeed? >> > Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but > for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. You can > input the Devanagari text either directly in UTF-8 or in a > transliteration (including Velthuis) using the xetex-devanagari > package. You can request transliteration from Velthuis by > Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit (Mapping=velthuis is used for Hindi, you > will have to write explicitly viramas after the final consonants). > There are several Devanagari fonts available, for instance Nakula and > Sahadeva by John Smith or GNU FreeFont. You need at least release > 20120503, in older releases the Devanagari block is incorrect. This > release is already packaged in TeX Live 2012. Devanagari in FreeSans > is derived from Gargi, thus it does not contain all Sanskrit > conjuncts, FreeSerif contains Velthuis glyphs. When the font is > loaded, it even obeys switching Language=Sanskrit and Language=Hindi > (the latter coresponding to the @modernhindi instruction in devnag). > Moreover, GNU FreeFont is most probably the only font with correct > spacing of Devanagari punctuation. I would certainly use Polyglossia + > GNU FreeSerif in XeLaTeX.
I installed texlive-2012 and, I'm trying FreeSerif fonts. As far as I can see, there are no italics for devanagari, am I right? Will it be available some day? Thanks - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire MAP5 --- UMR CNRS 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints P?res F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBHfi8ACgkQdE6C2dhV2JU9NQCgy2zDjXLWBIIoAtzAl/jdqbTU RwgAnA6tr3hT3n/mu+wYrfg0HVfYhlaB =XSz+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
