DEVNAG(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ DEVNAG(1) ✨

💖 NAME 💖

okay so the manual name is devnag, and it's a Devanagari for TeX preprocessor 🧚 bestie, it's literally the tool that makes Devanagari play nice with TeX 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

devnag in[.dn] [out[.tex]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so devnag is a preprocessor that reads transliterated Devanagari input wrapped in \dn and converts it into something TeX already knows how to read 🔥 it's giving full glow-up energy ✨

the preprocessor handles the tricky character placement for you, like lining up the vowel diacritics and making consonant ligatures look right 🫶 ngl the rest of the layout is on you, bestie 💀 you're the one running the show with that part 👑

for the full format rules, go check the documentation that comes with the package 📚 it's giving homework, but make it iconic 🌸

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • in[.dn] out[.tex] — this one's the file stuff 💜 input files default to the .dn extension and output files default to .tex. the output name is totally optional 🙈 if you skip it, devnag just names the output after your input file, no thinking required
  • -v — flex your version number 💅 this makes devnag report which version it is ✨

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

devnag was written by Frans J. Velthuis and is currently maintained by Zdenek Wagner as part of TeX Live, and you can reach the team at <tex-live@tug.org> 💌

this manpage was written by Norbert Preining for Debian GNU/Linux 🍓 and it can be used, modified and/or distributed freely by anyone, no cap 🫶

okay bestie, that's the whole tea ☕ this page came from TeX Live, dated 30 August 2022, and it's all about DEVNAG(1) 💖 go forth and make that Devanagari look fire 🔥✨

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