Hello Jürgen,
Are you after a Context version of something such as
Xetex Devanagari?
Best, Richard
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Subject: [NTG-context] Nāgarī for Academics
Date: 2024.08.05 21:31:16
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I have a few questions concerning the commands for setting up Indic
Fonts, specifically
for the use of Indologists and other academics dealing with Indian Languages.
I have been using the following command in older versions:
\definefontfamily [nagari] [rm] [Adishila] [features=devanagari-one]
\setupbodyfont [nagari]
Example: आनन्द
This seems to be out of date and for most academics (especially
outside of India) it is preferable
to use Sanskrit in transcription (almost all databases use
transcription) for input even if
printing in Nāgarī. For this we now seem to have the transliteration
IAST to Devanagari (?)
What we need are thus three elements: switching the language to
Sanskrit temporarily (the main
language will be english), setting the font for Sanskrit (let us say
AsishilaSan),
and enabling input of sanskrit in transcription (input: ānanda ->
output आनन्द).
Just a background note: Transcription and Nāgarī are not as equivalent
as one would want. In
transcription some word divisions are indicated that are not indicated
in a Nāgarī text, which
makes reading transcription easier — for those used to it. For most
Indian scholars transcription
is understandably a nuissance, a bit like reading English in phonetic
alphabets.
If someone could tell me how to get all these things into a few
commands, I would be most
grateful. My own attempts, mostly trial and error, did not succeed.
Best
Jürgen
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Prof. Dr. Juergen Hanneder
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
FG Indologie u. Tibetologie
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35032 Marburg
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