Babel speaks Hindi
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Babel provides a unified interface for creation of multilingual documents. Unfortunately no Indic languages are currently supported, so typesetting in Indic languages is based on specialised packages. The most advanced of these is Velthuis Devanāgar̄ı for TEX, because it already provides Hindi values for language-dependent strings as well as a macro for a European-style date. A language definition file for plugging Hindi into Babel has therefore been recently developed. The second part of the paper explains differences between Unicode and Velthuis transliteration. This is important for understanding the tool that can convert Hindi and Sanskrit documents from MS Word and OpenOffice.org into TEX via an XSLT 2.0 processor and a Perl script, as well as a method of making the PDF files searchable. Finally the paper discusses some possibilities of further development: the advantages offered by X E TEX and the forthcoming integration of Lua into pdfTEX.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006