Cikitsā

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...

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

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...