On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com wrote:
To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy.
Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%... with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful. --scott
ps. the images in the pdf are deliberately very low resolution to keep the overall size of the PDF small.