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Kindly refer to MESSAGE bhakti.v002.n585.4 d. Sat., 6June 1998 from

venkat (venkat)reg:

M.V AnanthaPadhmanabhan (Krishnan)'s magazine. In this, he has

written:"If some font software could be decided and arranged for tamil

and sanskrit we can all use the same to read articles that appear in

"Narasimha priya" and in this magazine which is known as "Shri Sriranga

Satajith kripa".

I recently downloaded and I am currently using a very useful software

named ITRANSLATOR, a utility which converts ITRANS 5.1 text or text

files into Devanagari scipt (True Type), which can then be exported as a

file or pasted via the clipboard in any Windows 95 / NT 4.0 application.

Itranslator comes with its own ‘Sanskrit’ True Type font, which has to

be installed into the Windows Fonts directory. The program is freely

available by contacting the internite site

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5105/index.html; the provider is:

Swami Satchidananda , Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, Swami Omkarananda

Road, Muni-ki-reti, Distt. Tehri Garhwal

P.O. Shivanandanagar - 249 192, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA;

omkar; omkara

The converted devnagari script files are saved as RTF files whose size

is about half that in WORD format. After I installed the Sanskrit font

provided in the program thro' the Control Panel in Win95, the RTF file

opened in my WORD '97 program automatically without conversion. The

fonts have an excellent appearance. I e-mailed one of my RTF files to

myself as an attachment, by way of test. The file was received and it

opened automatically in WORD in its original devnagari format. When I

enquired by email, the Ashram said that their code is made freely

available to any programmer who wants to add another language, such as

Tamil which I had proposed. I hope this information is found useful and

also, that someone will be able to add Tamil Font to this program. The

program has made the job simple, by dealing with Ghostscript, GS View

etc., in the background. The only job for us is to write the text

following the Itrans convention which is easy.

It has been stated in the message: "The lessons on Sanskrit will be

directly emailed to all those who wish to

get.The same is done with no return expectations." The procedure for

registering for this may be given, since my daughter wishes to avail

herself of this facility thro e-mail.

Wishing all success for this magazine's future,

Adiyen Dasan

MK KRISHNASWAMY