[Y-Indology] Fonts for ITranslator 98

[Guest guest]

I just had to prepare about 50 pages of sanskrit in transliteration and

devanagari. I normally use ITRANSLATOR98 for devanagari but I had to find

another solution this time because I had to use a devanagari font which

could be used both on the Mac and the PC. (I used John Smith's excellent

CSX+ fonts for the transliteration.) I produced a text in ITRANS coding and

then used the on-line utility JTRANS at http://www.sibal.com/sandeep/jtrans/

and the font XDVNG to produce the devanagari. I would paste a few pages at

a time to the JTRANS window, convert them and cut them back to my document.

This worked quite well. (There are a few limitations to some of the ITRANS

codings you can use (and a few minor bugs) that I discovered. It was then

quite easy to edit any misprints (or fix the minor bugs) using the "insert

symbol" feature of word. To produce the transliteration I simply did global

conversions from the ITRANS coding to the equivalent diacritical. (Pasting

the diacritical letter to the replace window using the ctrl-v feature some

of the members told me about a while back. I was able to produce the text

quite quickly using this methodology.

 

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

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[Guest guest]

For everyone's info, I have heard separately from Swami Satchidananda

of Omkarananda Ashram, the author of Itranslator 98. In his kind

note he informs me that a new version of Itranslator using unicode-

compatible fonts under Windows 2000/XP will soon ("after one or two

months") be available from the Omkarananda web site. This version

will, he tells me, be able to use any unicode compatible Devanagari

font.

 

For those who don't have it, the Itranslator link is:

 

http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Omkarananda//Sanskrit/Itranslt.html

 

Lance Nelson

University of San Diego