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How to get devanagari numerals in xetex or latex - especially in enumerate environment?

I can use unicode to write devanagari text but I am unable to get devenagari numerals in section numbers, enumerate environment, etc.

Here is the basic code I am using:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hindi}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Nakula}

\begin{document}

\section{Section Heading}

देवनागरी

Same English Text

१ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९ ०

\begin{enumerate}
    \item   This is first
    \item   देवनागरी
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Output of the above document compiled with xetex

And I am compiling using xetex (default set-up on Ubuntu 12.04).

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  • You'll probably need a specific font for that. SIL has some devanagari fonts: sil.org/sil/news/2011/annapurna-font.htm – ℝaphink Sep 6 '12 at 14:20
  • I can see devanagari numerals and devanagari text (१, २, देवनागरी, etc.) But the numbers in section numbers, enumerate environment are still arabic – deshmukh Sep 8 '12 at 10:29
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There's currently no interface for changing all numerals to Devanagari ones. However you can define your own:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hindi}
\setotherlanguage{english}

\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Nakula}

\newcommand{\devanagarinumeral}[1]{%
  \devanagaridigits{\number\csname c@#1\endcsname}}

% renew all representation of counters
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\devanagarinumeral{section}}
\renewcommand{\thepage}{\devanagarinumeral{page}}
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{\devanagarinumeral{enumi}}

\begin{document}

\section{\foreignlanguage{english}{Section Heading}}

देवनागरी

\foreignlanguage{english}{Some English Text}

१ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९ ०

\begin{enumerate}
    \item   \foreignlanguage{english}{This is first}
    \item   देवनागरी
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

A more risky approach is to change the meaning of \@arabic (the internal command that represents counter with arabic digits):

\makeatletter
\def\@arabic#1{\expandafter\devanagaridigits\expandafter{\number#1}}
\makeatother

This would spare you from redefining all needed counter representations, but may break packages that rely on \@arabic.

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  • I tried both the approaches. It produces an error ! Undefined control sequence. \devanagarinumeral #1->\devanagaridigits {\number \csname c@#1\endcsname } l.20 ...foreignlanguage{english}{Section Heading}} What could be wrong here? – deshmukh Sep 11 '12 at 12:01
  • Add \usepackage{devanagaridigits}; on my machine this package is automatically loaded, perhaps your TeX distribution is older than mine. – egreg Sep 11 '12 at 12:05
  • This has opened up Pandora's Box! My texlive installation is from Ubuntu repositories. It is a 2009 version. I could not find any devanagaridigits package in the repositories or on ctan.org Should I, therefore, go and install latest tex-live 2012? Can I install and use it where I do not have root access? I know, this should be a separate question. But thought might ask here for a link to these answers. Thanks, @egreg – deshmukh Sep 12 '12 at 14:06
  • @deshmukh As far as I know TeX Live 2012 is in the Debian "testing" tree, but installing it requires root access anyway. – egreg Sep 12 '12 at 14:14
  • thanks @egreg. I have accepted your answer and passed on the bounty. Will look up on installing Tex Live 2012 (with/ without root access). :) – deshmukh Sep 12 '12 at 14:30
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There is such a mapping, use Mapping=devanagarinumerals as the font feature. This mapping exists since July 2007, originally distributed with the velthuis package, now it is included in xetex-devanagari.

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  • Where exactly does one set this mapping up? Will be useful if you can give a MWE/ the exact command. – deshmukh Feb 11 '13 at 12:48
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    Using polyglossia and fontspec: \newfontfamily\devanagarifont[Script=Devanagari,Mapping=devanagarinumerals]{Chandas} – muk.li Feb 15 '16 at 18:34

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