Am 17.01.2026 um 12:04 schrieb Jürgen Hanneder via ntg-context:
I am trying to produce a critical edition of a Sanskrit text, where the
publisher needs Devanāgarī
script for the main text, but roman for the variants in the footnotes.
The text had already been
prepared in roman and the critical edition setup worked very well. Since
the main book in is
English, and the numbering with the edition should be in roman, I
thought that it would be better
to keep the main language English and switch to Devanāgarī.
But there are two problems:
In the example below (just seach for %%
to jump to the problematic lines) you can see three identical verses and
a bit of prose.
The first verse is typeset by using \skt{} for switching to Devanāgarī,
the second by
using \startsanskrit ... \stopsanskrit.
In the first verse the linespacing between the third and the fourth line
is wrong, perhaps
the baseline is not set by this command, but why does it show in the
fourth line?
Anyway, this is just for reference, for the method with
\startsanskrit ... \stopsanskrit, works,
but I cannot find a way to switch to roman in the footnote \var{}.
Is there an elegant way to keep the footnotes roman? In the definition
of \var?
1. You have to work on your example because there is too much useless
stuff and it's no fun to take a look at the problem with such a start.
2. You have to disable the transliteration for the footnote within the
transliterated text, e.g. \var{\resettransliteration ...}
\definepapersize[IeT][width=155mm, height=220mm]
\setuppapersize[IeT][IeT]
\setuplayout[height=200mm,width=120mm,header=14pt,marking=on,backspace=13mm,topspace=15mm,
headerdistance=4mm,bottomdistance=2pt,location=doublesided]
\setupheader[leftwidth=.8\hsize,rightwidth=.8\hsize,style=\tfx]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={header,right}]
\setupheadertexts[prathama upadeśaḥ][pagenumber][pagenumber]
[Haṭhapradīpikājyotsnā]
\mainlanguage[english]
\setupbodyfontenvironment [default][em=italic]
All of the setups above can be removed for the example.
\definefontfeature[default][default]
[fakecombining=yes,compose=yes,itlc=yes,protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,onum=yes]
\definefallbackfamily [Roman] [rm] [Adishila San]
[range=devanagari,features=devanagari-one]
\definefontfamily [Roman] [rm] [Minion Pro]
\setupbodyfont [Roman]
\definefontfamily [nagari] [rm] [Adishila San] [features=devanagari-
one,rscale=1.6]
Try to find fonts which which are either included with a standard
Context installation or part of a OS, e.g. Nirmala Text is included on
Windows 11.
\usetransliteration[indic]
\definetransliteration [MyDeva] [lang=sa,vector={iast to deva}]
\startsetups [sanskrit]
\settransliteration[MyDeva]
\switchtobodyfont[nagari]
\stopsetups
\setuplanguage [sa] [setups=sanskrit]
\definestartstop [sanskrit] [style={\language[sa]}]
\define[1]\skt{\start\language[sa]#1\stop}
\setupbodyfont[xcharter,10pt]
% Critical Edition Setup: Prose with two layers of apparatus
\setupnotations[alternative=serried]
\setuplinenumbering[step=5,method=page,style=\tfx,location=outer,align=outer]
\definelinenote[var][paragraph=yes]
\definelinenote[comment][paragraph=yes]
\definelines[sloka][][indenting={yes, small},
before=\blank\startnarrower,after=\stopnarrower\blank]
\definelines[bsloka][][indenting={yes, small},
before=\blank,after=\blank]
Drop custom environments which aren't needed for the example.
\setupalign[hz,vz,hanging,tolerant]
\setupinterlinespace[line=2ex]
\clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000
\setuptolerance[horizontal,tolerant]
\setuptolerance[vertical,tolerant]
\setupwhitespace[small]
\setupindenting[yes,1em]
\setupblank[big]
None of the alignment option are needed.
\def\lem{\kern0em{}]\enskip}
% Manuscript sigla
\def\Wthree{W\low{3} } \def\Wthreeplus{W\low{3}}
\def\Wthreeac{W\low{3}\high{ac}\ } \def\Wthreepc{W\low{3}\high{pc}\ }
\def\Tue{Tue\ } \def\Tueplus{Tue} \def\Tueac{Tue\high{ac}\ }
\def\Tuepc{Tue\high{pc}\ }
\def\Msix{Bo\low{3}\ }
\def\Peighteen{\P\low{18}}
\def\Pnt{P\low{19}\ } \def\Pntplus{P\low{19}}
\def\Pntac{P\low{19}\high{ac}\ } \def\Pntpc{P\low{19}\high{pc}\ }
\def\Pntohne{P\low{19}}
\def\EdMu{Ed\low{Mu}\ } \def\emend{em.\ }
\def\EdLo{Ed\low{Lon}\ } \def\EdAd{Ed\low{Adyar}\ }
\def\om{om.}
Remove all custom commands when necessary, especially when you don't
even use them.
\starttext
\setupheader [state=stop]
\startalignment[center]
{\tfb \skt{haṭhapradīpikājyotsnā}}
\blank[7mm]
{\tfa\skt{prathama upadeśaḥ}}
\stopalignment
\blank[7mm]
\startlinenumbering
%\begin{vsid}{hp01_001}
\startsloka
\skt{śrīādināthāya namo'stu tasmai
\ \ yenopadiṣṭā haṭhayogavidyā
vibhrājate pronnatarājayoga- %% problem: this line and the next are too
narrow
\ \ māroḍhumicchoradhirohiṇīva}
\stopsloka
\startsanskrit
\startsloka
śrīādināthāya namo'stu tasmai
\ \ yenopadiṣṭā haṭhayogavidyā
vibhrājate pronnatarājayoga- %% no problem here
\ \ māroḍhumicchoradhirohiṇīva
\stopsloka
\stopsanskrit
Keep the content to a minimum, none of the text above is needed to show
the problem.
\startsanskrit
\startsloka
śrīādināthāya namo'stu tasmai
\ \ yenopadiṣṭā haṭhayogavidyā\var{text \lem variant.} %% But the
variant text does not appear.
vibhrājate pronnatarājayoga-
\ \ māroḍhumicchoradhirohiṇīva
\stopsloka
\stopsanskrit
\blank
\noindent
\skt{mumukṣujanahitārthaṃ rājayogadvārā kaivalyaphalāṃ haṭhapradīpikāṃ
vidhitsuḥ paramakāruṇikaḥ
svātmārāmayogīndrastatpratyūhanivṛttaye
haṭhayogapravartakaśrīmadādināthanamaskāralakṣaṇaṃ}\var{lakṣaṇaṃ~\lem
rūpaṃ \Pnt} \skt{maṅgalaṃ
tāvadācarati}
\stoplinenumbering\stoptext
Wolfgang
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