On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:59:03 +0200 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > luatex. This could be. I usually use XeLaTeX for Sanskrit stuff, and in this case I wanted to take a look how this looks like when using lualatex. > The dotted ring is not a part of the glyph. the Unicode shaper > (HarfBuzz in XeTeX) knows that visarga is a dependent vowel (matra) > and since a consonant is missing, it takes the dotted ring from the > font (it should exist as a glyph per Microsoft's recommendation). I don't like the dotted ring but anyway. > Luatex knows nothing about rendering Indic script. So the compete > answer is: implement an equivalent of HarfBuzz in Lua, you will then > get consistent result. Without it using Devanagari in luatex is > impossible. > > I have quite a lot of texts in Hindi, if you develop such a shaper in > lua, I can offer testing. > I need visarga (and anusvara) independently as I create an A2 poster of the Sanskrit alphabet as can be seen here: http://comedy.dante.de/~manfred/sanskrit_alphabet_A2.pdf -- Thanks, Manfred -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex