I'm new to LaTeX and I'm trying to learn it. It is very interesting. I have to type a lot of documents that contain Devnagari text, more precisely Nepali Language. How can I type it using LaTeX, so that I could make beautiful document in my own language?
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12I recommend using XeTeX. Have a look at: Getting Started to XeTeX for Devanagari.– Stefan Kottwitz ♦Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 18:04
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1Please let us know by a comment if the answers in the linked question solved your question too. We would close this question as a duplicate then.– Stefan Kottwitz ♦Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 18:37
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Still looking for the solution - it would have been nice if we could natively write Nepali in tex studio without going to Sanskrit and translate it.– SL4566Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 1:08
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You could use Charles Wikner's Sanskrit package, available from CTAN. With this package, you would enter transliterated text and it would be converted into Devanagari (it does ligatures properly if I remember correctly).
The documentation is in the file sktdoc.ps.
edit: in Debian and Ubuntu, the same package used to be available with the name "latex-sanskrit", but was removed from the archives (I don't know the reason)
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Stefan Kottwitz's answer (xelatex) in the comments above is better - you can type directly in Devanagari and don't have to do intermediate transliteration through the Latin script.– SameerCommented Nov 17, 2014 at 8:55
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Some people actually need to type the transliteration -- it's used by western Sanskrit scholars, for example.– JayCommented Nov 17, 2014 at 10:54
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1Of course, transliteration would be better for western Sanskrit scholars. But here the question refers to "my own language", so I am assuming typing directly in Devanagari would be more convenient.– SameerCommented Nov 20, 2014 at 19:42
babel provides partial support for Nepali in XeTeX and LuaTeX, but you may need to supply the captions yourself. An example for LuaTeX is (I've used a Windows font, but you can select another font of your choice):
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[nepali, provide=*]{babel}
\babelprovide[mapdigits]{nepali}
\babelfont{rm}[Renderer=Harfbuzz]{Sanskrit Text}
\setlocalecaption{nepali}{chapter}{अध्याय}
\begin{document}
\chapter{नेपाल}
नेपाल (आधिकारिक नाम: सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल) दक्षिण एशियाली
भूपरिवेष्ठित हिमाली राष्ट्र हो। नेपालको पूर्वी सीमाना मेची नदी देखि
पश्चिमी सीमाना महाकाली नदीसम्मको औसत लम्बाइ ८८५ किलोमिटर छ।
\end{document}
answered Aug 3, 2021 at 14:31
