2008/8/15 Sreenivasa Guttal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The key issue is "how to TYPE unicode enabled devanagari/kannada characters > while edit by tex file in vim. Appreciate your help. > Unfortunately vim cannot be used. Indic scripts require complex rendering and the program has to be linked with a rendering engine such as ICU or Pango (or Uniscribe in Windows). Vim does not use such libraries. Moreover, the editor must be aware that one column may contain several characters. For instance, if you type Hindi word barreM, the first column will contain one unicode character (ba) and the second column will contain 5 unicode characters (ra + virama + ra + e-matra + anusvara). Vim is not able to handle it. I can write in indic scripts in gedit. Some users report that jEdit is also good but I have not tried it myself.
> Thanks. > > > On 8/15/08, Sreenivasa Guttal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your mail. >> >> I am trying to use XeLatex. I am currenrly using latex on ubuntu. The >> live-tex version has XeLatex built-in. However, for using this I am trying >> to setup a editor that would support unicode. I have installed vim and latex >> enabled. I am still trying to check how to enable unicode in vim, but still >> not working. >> >> Please suggest any easy ways or links that can make it easy for my >> environment. >> >> Thanks. >> Sreenivasa >> >> >> On 8/13/08, Zdenek Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I am using your devnag package to compose a book which has multiple >>> > languages, namely, Sanskrit, English and Kannada(South Indian Language). I >>> > have been able to use the first two, but I >>> dont know how I can use Kannada also. Does this require some new >>> packages to be installed? >>> > >>> I know, it is the language of Karnataka. >>> >>> > Appreciate your inputs in enabling the use of Kannada language with >>> > denag and latex. >>> > >>> I am sorry, I cannot help you. I only know that there is some >>> development in KannadaTeX and if I remember it well, you could find it >>> also at sarovar.org. However, I would rather recommend using XeLaTeX. >>> It works internaly in Unicode, accepts input in UTF-8 and does not >>> require special tricks with fonts, you just need OpenType fonts >>> installed in your operating system. I am sure that Kannada OpenType >>> fonts are freely available. If you need nice Devanagari OpenType >>> fonts, look at John Smith's fonts Nakula and Sahadeva at >>> http://bombay.indology.info/ >>> >>> > Regards, >>> > Sreenivasa >>> > >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> -- >>> Zdeněk Wagner >>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ >>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> > > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz _______________________________________________ Devnag-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general
