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Printing Transliterated

Indian Language Documents

itrans
`version 5.30`

©1991-2001 Avinash Chopde

Home page: `http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/`

This software is a pre-processor, it converts input representing Indic Text to the actual Indian Language Script, for printout or for display on Web pages. The input is uses English letters, so it can be created using any simple text editor.

This document describes the use of the program itrans, which may be used to generate Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), or Romanized Sanskrit output from input in an english transliterated form.

Many examples of ITRANS use are available on the web, archives for different purposes are available. One such project is a collection of Hindi Film Song Lyrics; another project is a collection of Sanskrit documents. There are also tools on the Web that make it much easier to use ITRANS - you can use ITRANS over e-mail, or use your WWW Browser to type ITRANS text, etc. Links to many such sites are available through the ITRANS home page at and you can also use WWW search tools (use the keywords `ITRANS` and `indian`) to search the Web.

- itrans Mechanism
- Input Format
  - The ``#include='' command
  - The ``#output='' command
  - The ``#endfont='' command
  - #lang, #endlang, and ##markers
    - ``#useshortmakers'' and ```#ignoreshortmarkers''
  - ``#usecsx''
  - ``#endwordvowel=''
- TEX Interface
  - TEX Requirements
  - LATEX Style Files
- Direct PostScript Output
  - Direct PostScript Output Requirements
- Direct Text Output - for HTML
  - Direct Text (HTML) Output Requirements
  - HTML Output - Unicode - UTF-8
- Program Options
- Known Problems
- Output Languages Supported
  - Devanagari Output
  - Tamil Output
  - Telugu Output
  - Bengali Output
  - Gujarati Output
  - Kannada Output
  - Punjabi Output
  - Romanized Sanskrit Output
- Usage Hints
  - Ligature suppression
  - Breaking lexical scan
    - List of all ITRANS recognized English letters
  - Punctuation Issues
  - Multi-consonant conjuncts
  - Word endings and the #endwordvowel command
- Author
- About this document ...

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