Yoga wrote:
ஸ்ரீகாந்த் 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?
The rule for the dirgha-svarita in Rigveda is simple - if a dirgha letter
has the svarita svara then it should be chanted as a dirgha-svarita. So
usually, one does not put a ``double vertical line'' but use only the
single vertical line.
Yoga, thanks for the explanation. This would explain why we normally do
not see double svarita written in Rig Veda.
Srikant, why do you want to write double svarita in Rig Veda? Devnag
already has the single svarita, and from Yoga's explanation, it should
suffice.
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
2010/5/12 Kevin Carmody <[email protected]>:
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.
How about to make a separate package for it if it turns useful for someone?
If someone else wants to do it, OK.
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?
OpenType fonts define characters and features, how it is displayed
depends on a rendering engine. Windows programs use Uniscribe, most
Linux programs use Pango, XeTeX uses modified version of ICU. I am not
sure whether modifications in the rendering engine are necessary for
adding a new accent to the font.
Uniscribe must explicitly know about a character in order for it to be
rendered. Otherwise it appears as blank or box. Microsoft plans to add
support for Vedic accents to Windows 8, currently scheduled for release
about 2012.
Kevin
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