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Indic Support
Overview
To help customers publish in popular Indic languages, QuarkXPress offers
native support for Indic Unicode fonts as well as embraces native OS features
for keyboard input methods for Indian languages. It also supports analyzing and
reordering characters as per Indic orthographic syllable boundaries; conjunct
creation and glyph positioning; Hunspell library support for 11 Indian languages
that offer spell checking and hyphenation methods; text input through keyboard,
copy & paste and import.
Text and Typography support
Quark now offers core text and typography features in QuarkXPress to enable
Indian publishers to build and publish documents in various Indian languages
that support Unicode fonts. QuarkXPress supports the latest Unicode, ICU and
Harfbuzz libraries.
QuarkXPress provides support for 11 popular Indian languages:
Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Odia, Gujarati,
Marathi, and Assamese
Support for Indic Unicode Fonts
QuarkXPress offers support for all Indic Unicode fonts. Users can obtain Indic
Unicode Fonts from font vendors like any other fonts (Latin script fonts) without
having to use specialized third-party XTensions to support keyboard mapping
and other Indic language features.
Integration with Input Method Editors (IMEs)
QuarkXPress supports all the default Input Method Editors (IMEs) for different
Indian languages on both Win and Mac. It also supports the Input Methods
offered by different vendors.
Indic text input
QuarkXPress supports the input of text in popular Indian languages. Indic text
can be input through a keyboard, online keyboard viewer, text copy and paste,
text import, text drag and drop. It also supports analyzing and reordering