So why does Polyglossia make \devanagarifont and \sanskritfont equivalent? There should be no such entity as \sanskritfont. Sanskrit isn't a font or a script, it's a language.
-- Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk> , Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity , Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/> , University of Alberta, Canada . South Asia at the U of A: sas.ualberta.ca On 14 February 2017 at 07:59, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-02-14 15:29 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > >> >> >> Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >> >> Even if this works, I am unhappy with the terminological confusion >> between scripts and languages. This seems to be built in to Polyglossia. >> >> Is this not, rather, a feature of Opentype [1, 2] fonts, where one writes >> (in XeTeX, for example) >> >> \font \thisfont = "Whatever:script=xxx;language=yyy" ? >> > > Yes, that's right. \language has been in TeX for a long time. Its role is > to switch hyphenation patterns and the packages as Babel and Polyglossia > switch other parameters in addition, \lefthyphenmin, \righthyphenmin, > \frenchspacing etc. Script is defined in OpenType. This consists of a set > of rules used to render the series of Unicode codepoints to glyphs. These > rules are not defined by Sanskrit as such, because, for instance, the > Malayalam script contains two-part matras but Devanagari does not have such > a feature. The rendering rules are independent of the language, if you use > Devanagari, you will use the same rendering rules for Hindi, Marathi, > Nepali. > > >> Philip Taylor >> -------- >> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm >> [2] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm >> >> >> > > Zdeněk Wagner > http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > > >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> >> >
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