I am comfortable with using all of the Devnagari script. However, I'm finding it difficult to use the letters "श" and "श्री"; the former is present in Devnagari, whereas the latter isn't. How can I typeset "श्री"? Should I use \dn
somehow?
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1Your question is very unclear. Could you clarify?– jub0bsNov 12, 2014 at 17:28
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2Keep in mind, that most of us can't read that. But you can always refer to them adding their unicode point. श (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA, U+0936)– Johannes_BNov 12, 2014 at 17:43
2 Answers
I'm afraid that the answer is probably negative. From your question I infer that you are using the Velthuis devanagari package (because it has the \dn switch to devanagari) and you want to get the irregular ligature depicted here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0
Browsing through the tables at the end of the documentation, I cannot find this particular ligature in the supported set of ligatures or special characters. So the sequence with the virama seems to be the (admittedly ugly) way to go.