[Tugindia] TeX and Devanagari

[S. venkataraman]

Regarding INDIC languages, I think ITRANS is a good alernative.  
It is not very difficult to install by following the instructions. 
I  successfully installed it in my windows machine(MIKTEX ) at the
office and in the 
linux box at home.  One
preprocessor handles all the languages, Tamil, English, Devnagari 
etc.( I have used only the devnag part of it.)  The documentation says
that 
unicode fonts are supported in the latest version.( I have a very, very
hazy idea of what 
unicode fonts are. Can somebody enlighten me?)  Itrans is created by
Avinash Chopde and it is available from 
www.aczone.com
Let me see if I can put together a HOW TO for installing ITRANS although
the documentation looks simple 
enough to follow.
Venkataraman

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Amitabh Trehan [SMTP:amitabhtex@yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:43 AM
> To:	tugindia@tug.org
> Subject:	RE: [Tugindia] TeX and Devanagari
> 
> Hi,
>  Here is some portion of the HOWTO document ;-) --->
> INstallation:
>  Generally, the easiest way I have seen to install any
> package is to take a TeXLive CDROM and run the
> install-pkg.sh script with the package name (the list
> of packagesa are available on the CD ). Catch: the
> package devnag on the TeXLive CDROM is outdated,
> therefore, following that path may not be helpful,
> rather, you could get in trouble if you try to do a
> new installation from other sources.
>  The method I use is to download the distribution (i.e
> the distrib directory) from a CTAN server (e.g
> ftp.dante.de ) as a zipped file and run a script I
> wrote to put the files in the proper places in the TDS
> setup (i.e inside the texmf directory).
> The script is attached. (and is self-explanatory).
> IMPORTANT: 
>   This script is for the default tetex installation on
> RedHat systems. the paths are hardcoded. These may
> differ in a TeXLive installation or debian etc. The
> best way will be to simpy rewrite this script using
> TeX path variables.  (I wrote this as a quick-fix).
> 
> 
> 
> Amitabh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > (i think it is time to write a HOWTO document, on
> > how do i start to  
> > > devanagari scrip documents using TeX!)
> > 
> > Thanks very much for the pointer. Yeah, that would
> > be very useful!!
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > -Sarada
> > 
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