[INDOLOGY @ ] Editting romanized sanskrit on computer

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"Harry Spier" <harryspier

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Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:37 AM

[iNDOLOGY @ ] Editting romanized sanskrit on computer

 

 

> Dear new list members,

>

> To type and edit romanized sanskrit I use Word under Windows with John

> Smith's CSX+ fonts. I use a template that defines Shortcut keystrokes for

> the letters with diacriticals. Alt + letter for letter with diacritical

> underneath, Ctrl + letter for letter with diacritical on top, and a few

> others. This works great except for one thing. In Word it doesn't seem

to

> be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes in either

> "find" or "replace" commands.

>

> Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word

 

Type the word you want to find, then copy it to clipboard, then paste it

into the find window and select the option for preserving the font and case.

This works for the fonts i use with VedaType while running witin Word.

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I wrote:

 

>>In Word it doesn't seem to

> > be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes in either

> > "find" or "replace" commands.

> >

> > Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word

>

 

Claude Setzer replied:

>Type the word you want to find, then copy it to clipboard, then paste it

>into the find window and select the option for preserving the font and

>case.

>This works for the fonts i use with VedaType while running witin Word.

>

 

I've not been able to paste into the find window. Thats been my problem

unless I'm missing something obvious. What is VedaType?

 

Best,

 

Harry

 

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

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INDOLOGY, "Harry Spier" <harryspier@H...> wrote:

 

> I've not been able to paste into the find window. Thats been my

problem

> unless I'm missing something obvious. What is VedaType?

 

Don't try to pull down the paste option from the Edit menu. Instead,

copy the word you need, and in the find/replace window, hit Ctrl-v.

 

In my usage of Times_CSX+ on Windows, this seems to be necessary only

for user-defined shortcuts that have a ctrl character in them.

 

Best,

Vidyasankar

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Harry,

 

Word is a clever little program, but it can be outsmarted. You can only

paste into the "find" or "replace" window with ctrl-v.

 

Happy pasting.

 

Christian

 

At 01:02 PM 4/24/01 -0400, you wrote:

>I wrote:

>

> >>In Word it doesn't seem to

> > > be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes in either

> > > "find" or "replace" commands.

> > >

> > > Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word

> >

>

>Claude Setzer replied:

> >Type the word you want to find, then copy it to clipboard, then paste it

> >into the find window and select the option for preserving the font and

> >case.

> >This works for the fonts i use with VedaType while running witin Word.

> >

>

>I've not been able to paste into the find window. Thats been my problem

>unless I'm missing something obvious. What is VedaType?

>

>Best,

>

>Harry

>

>

>

>Harry Spier

>371 Brickman Rd.

>Hurleyville, New York

>USA 12747

>

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Dear Harry,

 

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:37:41AM -0400, Harry Spier wrote:

 

[search & replace in MS Word]

 

> Is this a problem in word processors on other platforms such as the Mac or

> Unix. How do other members edit romanized sanskrit documents?

 

I've heard that searching and replacing in word processing files

of any sort -- as compared with the same thing in a standard

ASCII file -- can be problematic. For my own work I prefer to use

a text editor, Emacs although there are plenty of others. I've

set up a macro to insert all the commands for Skt. diacritics. If

I recall correctly the system was suggested ages ago on the

original list. It is wonderfully simple. Say I wanted to type:

 

ku"salasyopasa.mpada.h

 

I would input:

 

ku;zalasyopasa;mpada;h

 

Then run a macro through the file to get:

 

ku\'{s}alasyopasa\d{m}pada\d{h}

 

This is not the output you want but the principle should

hold. Any Skt. diacritic can be preceeded by `;' and then altered

with a macro. `;' is very conveniently placed too. No need to go

searching for the `Ctl' or `Alt' key etc. You should be able to

set up something similar in MS Word or TextPad etc.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Many regards,

 

Richard Mahoney

 

 

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Harry,

 

Try cut and pasting from the character map. You'll find it through the

"Accessories" folder. Do this, rather than trying to manually input the

character with the shortcut keys.

 

Alternatively, switch to a program like Itranslator98, which does not

require that you use shortcut keystrokes at all for devanagari or

transliteration.

 

Christian

 

At 09:19 PM 4/23/01 -0400, you wrote:

>Dear new list members,

>

>To type and edit romanized sanskrit I use Word under Windows with John

>Smith's CSX+ fonts. I use a template that defines Shortcut keystrokes for

>the letters with diacriticals. Alt + letter for letter with diacritical

>underneath, Ctrl + letter for letter with diacritical on top, and a few

>others. This works great except for one thing. In Word it doesn't seem to

>be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes in either

>"find" or "replace" commands.

>

>Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word. Perhaps someone has written a

>Word macro to do this or maybe there is some add-on multi-language software

>that adds this capability?

>

>If this was possible it would make editting Sanskrit much easier in Word

>(global replacements etc.) and also since in the Word replace command you

>can say "replace character x in font y with character z in font q" it would

>make changing a document with sanskrit in one font to another font fairly

>trivial.

>

>Is this a problem in word processors on other platforms such as the Mac or

>Unix. How do other members edit romanized sanskrit documents?

>

>

>Harry Spier

>371 Brickman Rd.

>Hurleyville, New York

>USA 12747

>

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>

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>

>indology

>

>

>

>Your use of is subject to

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Harry Spier wrote:

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> In Word it doesn't seem to be possible to enter characters defined by

Shortcut keystrokes in either

> "find" or "replace" commands.

Your problem may be because you have made a template. I have allocated (in

Word 95 and later) similar key-strokes as yours via the insert symbol

shortcut option -- deleting any existing and illogical (for Skt)

combinations. This works fine when using search and replace although the

letter displayed in the search or replace box is from the standard ascii

set -- there is probably a way round that by changing some defaults but it

doesn't bother me. Your "replace character x in font y with character z in

font q" might be a bit more time consuming -- given that all the various

diacritic fonts are non-standard. In such cases -- I recently had to

convert globally a very long document from an old Baskerville SD font to the

CSX+ font -- I convert all the diacritics first to substitute code long "a"

= z01, long "i" z02 and so forth and likewise for caps with long"a" cap x01.

You then repeat the process in reverse for another font, subtituting that

font's relevent letters -- perhaps not the most elegant solution but it

takes about 15 mins to complete. I am sure there are other ways as well.

 

Best wishes,

Stephen Hodge

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INDOLOGY, "Harry Spier" <harryspier@H...> wrote:

> I wrote:

>

> >>In Word it doesn't seem to

> > > be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes

in either

> > > "find" or "replace" commands.

> > >

> > > Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word

> >

>

> Claude Setzer replied:

> >Type the word you want to find, then copy it to clipboard, then

paste it

> >into the find window and select the option for preserving the font

and

> >case.

> >This works for the fonts i use with VedaType while running witin

Word.

> >

>

> I've not been able to paste into the find window. Thats been my

problem

> unless I'm missing something obvious. What is VedaType?

>

> Best,

>

> Harry

>

>

>

> Harry Spier

> 371 Brickman Rd.

> Hurleyville, New York

> USA 12747

> hallow mr herry,

recently i am back to NJ,today i saw yor letter and replying it.

you can try following link to get information about

sanskrat /devanagari vowels,consonents etc

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindilinks.html

hope it will solve your problem

spsharma

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