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How to typeset vedic fonts/symbols in kannada? I mean to use swaras like udatta, anudatta, dheerga, visarga, etc... I have used BhashaIME but it doesn't work well on Win10 machine.

You simply have to use a Kannada font that includes the Vedic accents. According to Sridatta here,

As per Jelle Bosma of Monotype, the designer of Noto Sans Kannada, it should work in the latest Phase III fonts. […] You can get the fonts here https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/tree/master/phaseIII_only

And indeed, after downloading Noto Sans Kannada from there (e.g. this file), I can get it to work:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{fontspec}

setmainfont[Script=Kannada,Path=$HOME/Downloads/]{NotoSansKannada-Regular.ttf}

tracinglostchars=2 % https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41230/48

begin{document}



ಆ ನೋ᳚ ಭ॒ದ್ರಾಃ ಕ್ರತ॑ವೋ ಯನ್ತು ವಿ॒ಶ್ವತೋಽದ॑ಬ್ಧಾಸೋ॒ ಅಪ॑ರೀತಾಸ ಉ॒ದ್ಭಿದಃ॑ ।

ದೇ॒ವಾ ನೋ॒ ಯಥಾ॒ ಸದ॒ಮಿದ್ ವೃ॒ಧೇ ಅಸ॒ನ್ನಪ್ರಾ᳚ಯುವೋ ರಕ್ಷಿ॒ತಾರೋ᳚ ದಿ॒ವೇದಿ॑ವೇ ॥ 1.089.01



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Note that in the same thread, the creator of Goda (and of Bhasha IME) also says it should work with Goda, if your input is valid Unicode. Trying with Goda (get the font here or (not tested) here) works too:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{fontspec}

setmainfont[Script=Kannada,Path=$HOME/Downloads/]{Goda_1_0_6.ttf}

tracinglostchars=2 % https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41235/48

begin{document}



ಆ ನೋ᳚ ಭ॒ದ್ರಾಃ ಕ್ರತ॑ವೋ ಯನ್ತು ವಿ॒ಶ್ವತೋಽದ॑ಬ್ಧಾಸೋ॒ ಅಪ॑ರೀತಾಸ ಉ॒ದ್ಭಿದಃ॑ ।

ದೇ॒ವಾ ನೋ॒ ಯಥಾ॒ ಸದ॒ಮಿದ್ ವೃ॒ಧೇ ಅಸ॒ನ್ನಪ್ರಾ᳚ಯುವೋ ರಕ್ಷಿ॒ತಾರೋ᳚ ದಿ॒ವೇದಿ॑ವೇ ॥ 1.089.01



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Similarly with Vagisha_1_0_5.ttf it works too:

If it doesn't work, please check your input for whether it's valid Unicode, and whether the font versions are the same. Also, these were tested with xelatex on macOS; I believe they should also work on Windows (especially 8.1 or later) according to the pages on the font (BhashaIME) site.

First, if you can find a font that contains both the Vedic extensions and the Kannada script, that would be ideal. Then you could simply DeclareUnicodeAccent.

Otherwise, here is a very crude beginning of an answer. It takes the Vedic extensions from a Devanagari font, composes them with a non-breaking space as the base character, then overlays them on top of the text, possibly from another script. I also did one other simple example of a Vedic accent. I didn’t yet extend this to accents that are medial (this would be a negative kern) or below (this box would need to be cropped, and not just lowered, so as not to leave too large a space between lines).

It might also be tricky to put these over specific letters without breaking up what appear to be the contextual forms of the script.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{fontspec}

usepackage{polyglossia}



setdefaultlanguage{kannada}

setotherlanguage{english}



defaultfontfeatures{ Scale = MatchUppercase }

setmainfont[Scale = 1.0]{DejaVu Serif}

setsansfont{Noto Sans}

newfontfamilykannadafont{Noto Serif Kannada}[

  Script = Kannada,

  Language = Kannada ]

newfontfamilykannadafontsf{Noto Sans Kannada}[

  Script = Kannada,

  Language = Kannada ]

newfontfamilydevanagarifont{Noto Serif Devanagari}[

  Script = Devanagari]



makeatletter



newlengthvedic@width

newlengthvedic@height

newlengthvedic@space



settoheightvedic@space{devanagarifontstrut}



newcommandkarshana[1]{#1

settowidthvedic@width{#1}%

settoheightvedic@height{#1}addtolengthvedic@height{-1vedic@space}%

makebox[0pt][c]{%

raisebox{vedic@height}{hspace*{-vedic@width}devanagarifontchar"A0char"1CD0}}%

relax}

newcommandnihshvasa[0]{{devanagarifontchar"1CD3}relax}



makeatother



linespread{1.3} % Line-and-a-half spacing makes for more regular line height.

makeatletter

% I use a minipage environment to wrap this MWE to a width that fits within

% the size limits of TeX.SX.  That obliterates parindent and parskip, and

% this restores it:  (Based on an answer by Markus Kuhn.)

newlength{saveindent}

setlength{saveindent}{parindent}

newcommand{@minipagerestore}{setlength{parindent}{saveindent}}

makeatother



begin{document}



begin{minipage}{10cm}



ಮಾನವ ಬಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಪ್ರಕಟನೆ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆ



ಮಾನವ karshana{ಬಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ} ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಪ್ರಕಟನೆnihshvasa



ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆ



end{minipage}

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