Thank you sir. Now I will start working on that.
Thanks a lot once again. On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Shivashankar, > > I do not know Kannada, I even do not know other scripts, I know only > Devanagari and I think that the problems will be similar. Hyphenation in > Unicode aware engines is quite simple, if you have the patterns. TeX > hyphenates words and a word is defined as a sequence of characters with > \catcode=11 and nonzero \lccode. The sequence most not contain TeX > primitives, explicite \kern etc. If you have a Unicode aware engine, all > you have to do is to set \catcode, \lccode, \uccode, and insert the > patterns for iniTeX. 8-bit engines do not allow it When placing matras or > probably also conjuncts you have to use primitives that must not be inside > a word, hyphenation hence cannot be used. However, babel requires > specification of a hyphenation file. It is possible to specify zerohyph > which means "no hyphenation". Hindi contains mostly short words and > hyphenatin is not needed but for Sanskrit it may be important. The Velthuis > package solves it in a simple way. The feasible breakpoints can be found > algorithmically, so the preprocessor puts \- to all such places. As default > \- is not output, you have to switch this feature on. > > Hope this helps. > > Zdeněk Wagner > http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > 2015-04-27 13:14 GMT+02:00 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> > : > >> Dear Shivashankar, >> >> I'm moving the answer to the mailing list where other people will be >> able to help you better than I can (please CC him). >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Shiva Shankar wrote: >> > >> > Hi Mojca, >> > >> > My name is Shivashankar and I am from Srirangapatna, Karnataka, India. >> I wanted to enable kannada tex package (kanlel.sty) in babel. May I know >> how to begin. At present I don't have hyphenation pattern for kannada. >> Without hyphenation patterns is it possible to enable kannada tex in babel. >> >> We do have hyphenation patterns for Kannada, but they only work in >> XeTeX/XeLaTeX or LuaTeX/LuaLaTeX (but LuaTeX doesn't fully support >> Indic scripts). There is also Kannada support available in >> Polyglossia. >> >> I don't know kanlel.sty (you should ask someone else about it and it >> also doesn't seem to be part of TeX Live), but here's an example that >> you should be able to compile with xelatex: >> >> \documentclass{article} >> \usepackage{fontspec} >> \newfontfamily{\kannadafont}{Tunga} % or {[tunga.ttf]} >> \usepackage{polyglossia} >> \setdefaultlanguage{kannada} >> \begin{document} >> ಏನಿದು ಲಾಟೆಕ್! ಗೊತ್ತಾ ನಿಮಗೆ? >> \end{document} >> >> The example was borrowed from >> http://choorucode.com/2010/01/06/tex-kannada-using-xetex/ with added >> Polyglossia support. >> >> I tried to add some longer text from Wikipedia and it seems to hyphenate. >> >> > If we need to learn more about TeX or LaTeX from where to start. Is >> there any book on LaTeX programming? >> >> I leave that question to others. >> >> > Regards >> > Shivashankar >> > Sriranga Digital Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., >> > Srirangapatna >> >> Mojca >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> > > -- Regards Shivashankar Sriranga Digital Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Srirangapatna
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