Sorry to continue "font" discussion here, but I hope this (above discussion) is helpful to those who are looking at these excellent sites reffered above and trying to cut-paste/save sanskrit doc's in HD..... or even just looking the text (for utf-8 encoding).. a few letters and 'i' type matra's would look strange if your computer is running older system...
Found the ITRANS site very helpful in writing the term paper (or small letter ) in devnagri script for those who are not too familier with sanscrit script etc..
Also, if you prepare, the doc in pdf or gif file the output is more or less standard.. but WFW doc would not.. The irratitating part is it almost does and at first glance you may not see the difference,.,,
Ashok, you are right - I found this: In one of the site which deals with Hindi fonts;
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Many of you have enquired us about why Aksharamala does not work with Word 2000 and earlier versions. Before I explain why, I would like to remind everyone that this limitation applies to all Unicode based schemes such as "Hindi Transliteration Scheme (ITRANS -> Unicode)".
Even though MS Word 2000 is a Unicode application it is what I refer to as "Indic-blind". This means that it does not handle Unicode Indic codepages properly. Unfortunately, this is also the case with some other 2000 and earlier versions of Microsoft products such as Excel and PowerPoint. One notable exception in the whole lot is Microsoft Outlook, which works well not only in Outlook 2000, 98 versions but also as back as Outlook 97. (I have not personally tested Outlook 97, but heard reliably from a user). FrontPage is another contender for being very compatible. Even though I have quickly switched to FrontPage XP once it is released I have used FrontPage 2000 for creating several web pages using Aksharamala. MS Access on the other hand works well internally while handling Indic (Unicode) content but only Access XP displays Indic content properly in its data-entry and other screens. Microsoftâs free products, specifically, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express also work very well with Indic text. And so is WordPad (Except for NT 4 version), which handles Indic content well, but I suggest that you save it in .rtf (Rich Text Format) for maximum compatibility across multiple Windows platforms.
In summary, if you are looking for a feture-rich editor for putting in Indic content then move to Office XP / Word XP (Don't forget to enable Hindi support from 'Office XP Language Settings'). If your budget is tight, consider writing it in WordPad or may be simply put it in Outlook Express and save it!
In any case I hope the information is useful ...
And Yes! the term paper looks fine in word pad!!!
Found the ITRANS site very helpful in writing the term paper (or small letter ) in devnagri script for those who are not too familier with sanscrit script etc..
Also, if you prepare, the doc in pdf or gif file the output is more or less standard.. but WFW doc would not.. The irratitating part is it almost does and at first glance you may not see the difference,.,,
Ashok, you are right - I found this: In one of the site which deals with Hindi fonts;
>>>>
.>>>>>
Many of you have enquired us about why Aksharamala does not work with Word 2000 and earlier versions. Before I explain why, I would like to remind everyone that this limitation applies to all Unicode based schemes such as "Hindi Transliteration Scheme (ITRANS -> Unicode)".
Even though MS Word 2000 is a Unicode application it is what I refer to as "Indic-blind". This means that it does not handle Unicode Indic codepages properly. Unfortunately, this is also the case with some other 2000 and earlier versions of Microsoft products such as Excel and PowerPoint. One notable exception in the whole lot is Microsoft Outlook, which works well not only in Outlook 2000, 98 versions but also as back as Outlook 97. (I have not personally tested Outlook 97, but heard reliably from a user). FrontPage is another contender for being very compatible. Even though I have quickly switched to FrontPage XP once it is released I have used FrontPage 2000 for creating several web pages using Aksharamala. MS Access on the other hand works well internally while handling Indic (Unicode) content but only Access XP displays Indic content properly in its data-entry and other screens. Microsoftâs free products, specifically, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express also work very well with Indic text. And so is WordPad (Except for NT 4 version), which handles Indic content well, but I suggest that you save it in .rtf (Rich Text Format) for maximum compatibility across multiple Windows platforms.
In summary, if you are looking for a feture-rich editor for putting in Indic content then move to Office XP / Word XP (Don't forget to enable Hindi support from 'Office XP Language Settings'). If your budget is tight, consider writing it in WordPad or may be simply put it in Outlook Express and save it!
In any case I hope the information is useful ...
And Yes! the term paper looks fine in word pad!!!