Guest guest Posted March 28, 2000 Report Share Posted March 28, 2000 OM VISHNAVE NAMAH Dear Ajit, I tried it for my books, but am sorry to say that the result was far from Satisfactory. The best and easiest is the Shusha FONT with which you can also learn Himdi easily. Type S for " Sa " or Shift+S for " Sha " ..its so easy. Best Wishes Sanjay Rath - Ajit Krishnan <ajit <varahamihira > Monday, March 27, 2000 9:14 PM [Jagannath] Re: Diacritics > 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 > > > ------ > HARE RAMA KRISHNA > > > ------ > Beliefnet.com - the premier Internet source for information, prod- > ucts, and community to help people meet their spiritual and religious > needs. A multi-faith forum to explore spirituality without boundaries. > http://click./1/2209/4/_/2192/_/954171881/ > > -- Create a poll/survey for your group! > -- /vote?listname=varahamihira & m=1 > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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