[INDOLOGY @ ] Editing romanized sanskrit on computer

[Guest guest]

I can do this in Apple Mac, using a rather antiquated wpc called MacWrite

Pro. You can search and replace either by text or attributes (which

include size, font etc) or both at once.

 

Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

Harry Spier says:

 

>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.

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

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

[Guest guest]

There seems to be a problem with CSX+ itself, which is compounded by the

peculiarities of Word. Using Mac with MacWrite Pro, I can normally "find"

and "replace" anything--line breaks, tabs etc, as well as characters--but

not with CSX+!

 

CSX+ also doesn't work with PopChar, my method of choice for finding

characters (including those made with multiple keystrokes or located only

by ASCII numbers). I've found that the character chosen isn't always the

same one that appears in the text.

 

Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

>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.

 

Stephen Hodge writes:

>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.

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>Best wishes,

>Stephen Hodge

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