Guest guest Posted March 27, 2000 Report Share Posted March 27, 2000 YND wrote: <snipped> Dear gurus, > I thought I could send the diacritic typing program to use with the Balaram font I sent previously. It is very easy to use. Just unzip it somewhere. After first starting set the American character map. Then just press the Ctrl key before a letter (in a sequence) and it will appear with the diacritic mark. The list of matching pairs is given in the Help menu. There is a sanskrit transliteration scheme which is in widespread use right now. The format used by the itrans program has now been implemented on many platforms. There are programs for windows, mac, unix... this format is quickly becoming the standard. The advantage of this is that you can send the transliteration as plain text which is nicer for us bandwidth challenged people. For example, the four t's get encoded as ta, tha, Ta, Tha... Another advantage is that the same input can be used to create outputs in several languages (sanskrit, romanized english, tamil, telugu, etc... Also, there are big repositories of vedic documents and sanskrit slokas (http://sanskrit.gde.to) which are all encoded in this format. The main site for this software written by Avinash Chopde is http://www.aczone.com/itrans A windows program implementing this functionality is available at http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Omkarananda/Sanskrit/Itranslt.html It is simple to learn and use, and you can create beautiful sanskrit documents. These can be outputted as pictures, web pages etc. eg. shuklaaMbaradharaM viShNuM shashivarNaM chaturbhujam . prasannavadanaM dhyaayet sarvavighnopashaantaye .. your sishya, ajit -- Ajit Krishnan ajit@(julian|engga).uwo.ca http://publish.uwo.ca/~akrishna gpg key 794AE458 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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