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Questions about using TeX and related systems for typesetting documents in Indic languages and scripts.

is for questions about using TeX and related systems (usually XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX) for typesetting documents or words in Indic languages and scripts.

Since these scripts are not part of the usual TeX character encodings, one typically must use a variant of the LaTeX engine. and are common choices; if your workflow involves one of these engines, please add its tag to your question.

Here are two popular packages for working with Indic scripts; both work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

  1. (package documentation) allows the user to choose from fonts installed on their computer. It supports the following Indic scripts: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Karosthi, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Syloti Nagari, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana, and Tibetan.
  2. (package documentation) builds on fontspec somewhat like the babel package, handling things like directionality, hyphenation, and switching between multiple scripts. It supports the following Indic languages: Bengali, Divehi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Tibetan.
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How to typeset vedic fonts/symbols in kannada?

How to typeset vedic fonts/symbols in kannada? I mean to use swaras like udatta, anudatta, dheerga, visarga, etc... I have used BhashaIME but it doesn't work well on Win10 machine.
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Scanning use error while compiling Devanagari text

I tried to run the Latex code posted by Stephen Kottwiz as an answer to this question: How to make Sanskrit Title in Devanagari Package Here's the same code…
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Alphabet conversion chart

In reference to this question about typing in English and getting output in Bengali (in the way done by the O.P) , can someone give me a conversion chart as to which combination of English characters correspond to which characters in Bengali?
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Extending .map file with U+1CDA Vedic tone double svarita

Two years ago I asked already a similar question, but couln't find a solution: here. How can I extend this map with the Unicode U+1CDA Vedic tone double svarita? I tried but did not succeed: ; TECkit mapping for ITRANS input scheme for writing…
Denis
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How to get the devanagari sign candrabindu with velthuis mapping?

I am typesetting the following document and, to my dismay, I hit this issue in its title! See the example doc below. For now, I must use Velthuis mapping for typesetting in devanaagarii (as dictated by my current workflow which I am trying to…
Kedar Mhaswade
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