I fail to understand your point. Pre-modern mathematics from South Asia is almost all written in Sanskrit. If you edit and publish one of these works - as many do - you need the math capabilities of TeX. Hayashi's edition of the Bakhshali MS contains both an edition of the Sanskrit text from the codex unicus and a translation of it into English. Both parts of Hayashi's work used TeX's math capabilities extensively. Most editions are like this.
D On 20 December 2010 15:43, Shrisha Rao <sh...@nyx.net> wrote: > El dic 20, 2010, a las 8:02 p.m., Dominik Wujastyk escribió: > > > Actually, the famous edition of the Sanskrit Bakhshali manuscript, on > medieval Indian mathematics, by Takao Hayashi was typset entirely in TeX. > So was the recent book, History of Indian Mathematics, by Kim Plofker. > > I did not know that, but it makes sense. > > > In fact, TeX is the tool of choice for most people working at the > forefront of the history of Indian mathematics. > > TeX is most common for people writing any kind of mathematics, including > engineers, physicists, and computer scientists. However, my point was > slightly different -- in a text that is almost entirely in Sanskrit (not a > contemporary translation of a Sanskrit work or a work presented mathematics > originally found in a Sanskrit text), there is unlikely to be much use for > math notation. > > Regards, > > Shrisha Rao > > > Dominik > > > > > > On 20 December 2010 15:28, Shrisha Rao <sh...@nyx.net> wrote: > > El dic 20, 2010, a las 5:05 p.m., Ulrike Fischer escribió: > > > > > Am Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:55:07 +0530 schrieb Shrisha Rao: > > > > > >> I tried inserting the \catcode`\^=11, etc., right after > > >> \begin{document} and that seems to work. > > > > > > As long as you don't use ^ in math. In general it is better to keep > > > such changes local. > > > > Not very likely that math mode superscript/power notation will need to be > used in Sanskrit texts, but I see your point. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shrisha Rao > > > > > Ulrike Fischer > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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