2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <lis...@tex-tipografia.com>: > François, > > >> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex. >> >> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have >> any chance to succeed? > Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. You can input the Devanagari text either directly in UTF-8 or in a transliteration (including Velthuis) using the xetex-devanagari package. You can request transliteration from Velthuis by Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit (Mapping=velthuis is used for Hindi, you will have to write explicitly viramas after the final consonants). There are several Devanagari fonts available, for instance Nakula and Sahadeva by John Smith or GNU FreeFont. You need at least release 20120503, in older releases the Devanagari block is incorrect. This release is already packaged in TeX Live 2012. Devanagari in FreeSans is derived from Gargi, thus it does not contain all Sanskrit conjuncts, FreeSerif contains Velthuis glyphs. When the font is loaded, it even obeys switching Language=Sanskrit and Language=Hindi (the latter coresponding to the @modernhindi instruction in devnag). Moreover, GNU FreeFont is most probably the only font with correct spacing of Devanagari punctuation. I would certainly use Polyglossia + GNU FreeSerif in XeLaTeX.
> > Not yet -- I'm still working on it. For further info, see: > > http://www.tex-tipografia.com/babel_news.html > > An advance of the new manual is: > > http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/latex2e-public/required/babel/babel.pdf > > Javier > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex