Re: [NTG-context] Indic scripts/languages (was: lmtx & lohit-devanagari fonts)

Am 22.04.2020 um 11:49 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer :

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 08:16:32AM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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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.

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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/...

Thank you! In scripts/context/lua/mtx-patterns.lua Hindi and several other languages are commented, what does that mean? Best, Hraban