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XML to PDF for SARIT texts
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font for footnote number #11

Closed paddymcall closed 8 years ago

paddymcall commented 8 years ago

Currently, the footnote numbers (both in the text and in the footer) are set in the font of the main text. That is scaled, so they look to big. Is it possible to set them in the default roman font, or to set them as devanagari?

ppasedach commented 8 years ago

The following insertion to the preamble changes the formatting of the footnotes in text as well as footer to devanagari. There are still some font problems however, which make the compile take ages. This is not final yet, but it will give you some idea. I am here following p. 234 of the memoir manual, it seems reledmac doesn't get involved here, although I'm not certain about that.

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\@makefnmark}{\hbox{\textsuperscript{\addfontfeatures{Mapping=devanagarinumerals}\footnotesize \@thefnmark}}}
\makeatother
\footmarkstyle{\textsuperscript{\addfontfeatures{Mapping=devanagarinumerals}#1}}

Another possible road might be to add Mapping=devanagarinumerals to the \newfontfamily\devanagarifont, which would then change all the other numbering to devanagari too, such as the line numbers, chapter numbers etc..

You asked about the scaling, that should also be possible to adjust as an option to \addfontfeatures. I'll look into it later.

paddymcall commented 8 years ago

The problem is that Chandas has a bad ratio to the roman font. We have to scale it for legibility, but that also scales up the roman numerals (taken from Chandas in these cases).

Please evaluate if one of these fonts does not have the issue: https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/ttf-devanagari-fonts/filelist

ppasedach commented 8 years ago

I'm wondering, if, rather than scaling up the devanagari font only, using 12pt as a class option to memoir wouldn't be the better way to give us better readability ? For an example see pramanavarttikavrtti12pt.pdf (Using arabic numbers again.)

paddymcall commented 8 years ago

best to switch to another font, eventually; can't fix this at the moment for Chandas: having 12pt globally does not change the ratio of the devanagari letters to the arabic numerals in the Chandas font.