Indic Scripts

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Basic Sample

A very basic sample with Indic scripts is the following:

%\definefontfamily [kannada] [rm] [Kedage] [features=kannada-one]
\definefontfamily [kannada] [ss] [Tunga] [features=kannada-one]

\definetypeface [kannada] [mm] [math] [modern]

\setupbodyfont [kannada]

\starttext
ಇದು ಹೇಗಿದೆ? ನಾನು ಹೀಗೆ ತುಂಬ ಬರೆಯಬೇಕೆಂದು ಯೋಚಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
\stoptext


Supported Scripts

The list of Indic scripts supported by ConTeXt MkIV and LMTX are:

  • Devanagari
  • Bengali
  • Gujarati
  • Gurmukhi
  • Kannada
  • Malayalam
  • Oriya
  • Tamil
  • Telugu

In order to get the proper OpenType features, you need to select the proper feature from the following list:

  • devanagari-one
  • bengali-one
  • gujarati-one
  • gurmukhi-one
  • kannada-one
  • malayalam-one
  • oriya-one
  • tamil-one
  • telugu-one

Depending on your font, you might need instead:

  • devanagari-two
  • bengali-two
  • gujarati-two
  • gurmukhi-two
  • kannada-two
  • malayalam-two
  • oriya-two
  • tamil-two
  • telugu-two

Script Versions

Script tags from the OpenType specification contains second versions for what might be some (or all [I’m afraid I don’t know]) Indic scripts.

Why are those second versions available? From their own explanation:

The OpenType script tags can also correlate with a particular OpenType Layout implementation, with the result that more than one script tag may be registered for a given Unicode script (e.g. 'deva' and 'dev2').

Features ending in -one use the older OpenType implementation, while the ones ending in -two deploy the newer implementation.

Hyphenation

Hyphenation patterns aren’t included yet in ConTeXt for any of the mentioned languages.