How can I make Hindi pdf document in Latex without transliteration?

Question

I want to write a letter in Hindi. I want to use LaTeX to create the PDF document in Hindi. I don't want to have transliteration from English to Hindi. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Use the polyglossia package. Type in Hindi words using input systems like that from Google (http://www.google.co.in/inputtools/). There is no transliteration in the LaTeX source itself. Compile with XeLaTeX.

Sample:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{hindi}
\setotherlanguage{english}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\newfontfamily\devanagarifont[Scale=MatchUppercase]{Nakula}
\newfontfamily\devtransl[Mapping=DevRom]{Times New Roman}
\setmainfont{Nakula}

\begin{document}
Bollywood बॉलीवुड 
\end{document}

Answer 2

I am assuming you are using the De­vana­gari script.

Below are some links to LaTeX's official documentation for Hindi. Unfortunately, much of the work done is LaTeX does involve transliteration:

Here is a general overview geared towards people just learning how to use Hindi for LaTeX.

Here is a link to an offical package supporting the De­vana­gari script.

Here is another link to the documentation for another package that supports the Devanagari script. It should be noted that this package (or the documentation) has not been updated in over 20 years. Here's a tutorial in utilizing this same package.

Here is a Tex.SE post that may help.