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).
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
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