Cikitsā

In earlier posts I addressed this issue, but I think my examples were much too complicated.  Here's a minimum working example.   \docum...

Update, 2021 January 2021.  Since writing about Xindy below in 2016, a new indexing program has been released, Xindex by Herbert Voß.  I n...

The problem There's been a long-standing issue about using the Gnu Freefont fonts with XeLaTeX.  The fonts are "Free Serif...

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \newfontfamily   \sanskritfont [Script=Devanagari,Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit]{Sansk...

In a post on 5 July 2010 , I gave an example of how to use XeLaTeX with various fonts and various ways of inputting text.   Some time later,...

TeX4ht can do a lot of the work of converting from LaTeX to wordprocessor.  But when one adds in the complications of UTF8 characters, mul...

The more mature products (2014) ShareLaTeX XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX, biber and biblatex. Based on the most recent TeXLive. Open-source vers...

I'm gradually building up a file of hyphenated Sanskrit words and compounds, written in the Latin alphabet.  The file is called sanskrit...

I have posted an update to this post with some new material. Steve White has recently done a great deal of work updating the FreeSerif an...

Input: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Nakula} \begin{document} Your Devanāgarī loo...

%!TeX program = xelatex % % Thanks to Yves Codet for the first version of this test file, and to Yves % and Jonathan Kew for the hyphenat...

When using the Velthuis input coding for Devanāgarī, and wanting to have it handled by XeLaTeX, one finds the palatal ñ disappears in the Nā...

I have to admit even I am startled by the success of this. In the input file below, I changed the single command: \setdefaultlanguage{sans...

[ Update, February 2011 : Somdev has moved his blog to http://pratibham.blogspot.com/ .] Somdev Vasudev's RomDev mapping is installed ...

And here's the input for the above (tested and working in September 2019): \documentclass{book} % Set up things for XeLa...

This example worked well in July 2010, but some TeX packages have since been updated slightly.  See the new, updated version of this examp...