22 Apr
2020
22 Apr
'20
3:49 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 08:16:32AM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Does that mean that indic scripts/languages are now fully supported? (Or maybe just scripts, not languages?
Devanagari support was added a while ago. The layout engine was according to reports working for at least one other Indic script (Bengali, I think), but not for others (Oriya? Can’t remember). I wouldn’t expect a renderer for Devanagari to do a very good job on Tamil or Malayalam, for example.
Do Hindi or Urdu need hyphenation patterns?)
Hindi uses hyphenation, Urdu doesn’t. We have patterns for Hindi in TeX-Hyphen: https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/tree/master/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/... Best, Arthur