On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Hans Hagen
On 12/18/2013 11:17 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
i uploaded a beta that has the patterns and language definitions .. but up to you to check it and provide better settings if needed
Thanks, Hans! Now mkiv correctly loads the patterns and hyphenation works (though even with \language[ml], log says "language 'en' is active").
\language is a local command, use \mainlanguage instead
Does not seem to have an effect here. MWE: \starttext %\language[ml] \mainlanguage[ml] \definedfont[file:rachana*default] കോണ്ടെക്സ്റ്റില് മലയാളം ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത് \stoptext The font, Rachana, could be found here: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-6.0/Rach...
Is there a way to also enable mkii/texexec to load the patterns? I did copy-paste the section from lang-def.mkiv to lang-ind.mkii and
probably some more is needed, but in mkii you then also need tp use utf 8 i guess and have the right 8 bit fonts
also added an entry in lang-def.lua but the log does not show pattern for ml loaded, in addition to mentioning "language ml is undefined".
forget about mkii, using 8 bit tex is a bit of a nightmare for ml i think
Indeed, but I am using mkii with XeTeX backend (texexec --xetex). I'm trying to make Malayalam shaping work on mkiv (taking Devanagari font-odv.lua as example) but it is quite complex, till then I'm depending on mkii+xetex.