Hi Srikant,
?????????? Vaithilingam wrote:
Hello,
I am using Latex to write a few verses from the Rig Veda.
I would like to incorporate a "double rising svarita" as is used in
some verses.
This is the first I have heard of this accent being used in Rig Veda.
Could you please provide some citations?
However, using the devanagari.sty file and specifically the Rig Veda
Macros, I am unable to do so. Any help or workaround that you can
provide would be much appreciated.
The double svarita is one of the rarer Vedic accents. A few years ago,
I added a few common Vedic accents to Devnag. Soon after this, I
proposed adding a more comprehensive collection of Vedic accents to
Devnag. The other developers felt this was not a good idea, so I
abandoned this plan. At this point, I do not want to revive the idea.
As of last October, double svarita is now a Unicode character (U+1CDA),
so a recently updated Unicode Devanagari font should have it. I know of
only one such font, Praja, but it is not free. You can purchase it at
https://secure.bmtmicro.com/servlets/Orders.ShoppingCart?CID=5115&PRODUCTID=51150002
. Disclosure: This font costs $35. It was developed by a colleague of
mine, and I am doing the marketing. We are splitting the proceeds.
Does anyone know if XeTeX or ITrans has any way of using the new Vedic
characters that were added to Unicode (v5.2) last October?
Best wishes,
Kevin
best,
Srikant
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