Dear Zdenek, that's very cool indeed! Thank you! Dominik
On 14 March 2014 01:39, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-03-13 19:09 GMT+01:00 François Patte < > francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr>: > > Bonjour, > > > > When writing a Sanskrit text, there are (at least) two ways: roman > > transliteration, or devanagari. > > > > In a transliterated text, there are much more blank spaces between > > "words" than in a devanagari text. I would like to be able to have only > > one file for a text and choose either transliteration or devanagari. > > > > Is it possible to have some active character which separates "words" in > > the file and this character will give a blank space, if I choose > > tranliteration, and will give a null space if I choose devanagari, but a > > null space which allows ligature if necessary. > > > > For instance, in the file we have: tasmād_dhetor_bijasya and we get, > > after compilation: > > > > tasmād dhetor bījasya (in transliteration) > > > > or > > > > तस्माद्धेतोर्बीजस्य (in devanagari) > > > > (I have chosen underscore as the active character, but it is not the > > best idea...) > > > The TECkit mapping is applied after all macros are expanded, just > before the horizontal list is built. You have to decide in advance > whether _ will expand to \space or to nothing. Thus you can do the > following: > > \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report} > > \usepackage{xltxtra} > > \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{% > FreeSerif% > } > > \usepackage{polyglossia}% I prefer polyglossia to babel > \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit} > > \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[% > Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit,AutoFakeSlant=0.2]{FreeSerif} > > \begin{document} > > \catcode`\_=13 > \def\MyText{tat_sat śrī_bhagavān_uvāca}% _ not expanded here > > % Sanskrit is the default language, no need to change the font > > % As default, we have the transliteration, we have to define _ > \def_{\space} > > \MyText > > {% Devanagari, redefine _ and add mapping > \def_{} > \addfontfeature{Mapping=RomDev} > \MyText > > } > > % Transliteration again > \MyText > > \end{document} > > The PDF is attached. > > > Thank you for any light! > > > > -- > > François Patte > > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > > Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 > > Université Paris Descartes > > 45, rue des Saints Pères > > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > > Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 > > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >
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