2012/9/5 François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : >> 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. > > I installed texlive-2012 and, I'm trying FreeSerif fonts. As far as I > can see, there are no italics for devanagari, am I right? > Unfortunatelly they are missing. They can be created by geometrical slanting but I do not remember the "fontspec" keyword.
> Will it be available some day? > Only Steve White can answer this question. > Thanks > > > - -- > François Patte > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > Laboratoire MAP5 --- UMR CNRS 8145 > Université Paris Descartes > 45, rue des Saints P?res > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlBHfi8ACgkQdE6C2dhV2JU9NQCgy2zDjXLWBIIoAtzAl/jdqbTU > RwgAnA6tr3hT3n/mu+wYrfg0HVfYhlaB > =XSz+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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