Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2018-07-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:25:19AM +0530, Shree Devi Kumar wrote: > https://github.com/Shreeshrii/xetex-itrans/blob/master/wikner-skt-iast.map > has a draft map based on the velthuis-devanagari map, but currently it does > not support the initial Capitals (eg. AA needs to convert to Ā, "S to Ś).

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2018-07-30 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi all, there is a subtle problem. The original design of Velthuis (at least as I found it somewhere) was case insensitive. It was thus possible to use normal English capitalization as Indra, Brahma etc. Thus both i and I was short (hrasva) i and both ii and II was long (dirgha) i. Aspirated bh co

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2018-07-30 Thread Shree Devi Kumar
Thank you both for your replies. With some experimentation and change in rules, I have got it to work. The input in the old file had same text to be displayed in Devanagari, IAST and Tamil. The first two were encoded in skt (velthuis) scheme and Tamil was in ITRANS. I used three different maps f