From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Tue Jul 7 20:13:48 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 21:13:48 +0100 Subject: SOAS pulls through financial crisis Message-ID: <161227015424.23782.12620676543179378726.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> It seems that SOAS will survive its recent crisis with a degree of departmental integrity. The Director's decision to summarily axe the department of phonetics and linguistics and the publications department, as well as all publications, has been withdrawn. I understand that staff who were told that their contracts would be terminated in September have been notified that this is no longer the case. A meeting of the SOAS Governing Body on 18 June considered the recommendations of the Finance & General Purpose Committee, and the advice of the Academic Board, and accepted that the decision to close Phonetics & Linguistics should be withdrawn. Some of the other proposals are subject to further investigation of available options. A working party has been set up within SOAS to try to identify alternative measures that will save money. Also, the Universities Funding Council has decided to set up a special working party on SOAS to report by the end of November on a way of replacing the so-called special factor grant which has in the past supported SOAS's teaching of minority subjects. This act of the UFC is being taken as a signal that it has accepted in principle the case for continuing the special grant, but perhaps in a new guise. To decode the above: the director's decisions caused an uproar, both within SOAS and from colleagues worldwide. At one point, a thick folder was on display in the senior common room, full of letters of concern and protest over the proposed SOAS cuts. It is certain that this strong response was a major factor in causing the cuts to be withdrawn. Note that the decision on the cuts had been announced, and individuals had been given notice. This was not just a leak from a committee considering such cuts. It had happened. Happily it has now un-happened. But the financial crisis has not disappeared. Rather than implementing draconian cuts to put itself immediately on a sound financial footing, SOAS has brought academic staff into the decision-making process, and is attempting to make equivalent savings by a more gradualistic, institution-wide pruning. This too will be uncomfortable. While this is going on, SOAS will dip into its capital to keep itself afloat. The apparent change of heart of the UFC is perhaps the brightest feature of all this. Dominik From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Fri Jul 10 09:48:14 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 10:48:14 +0100 Subject: new ftp site for relevant files Message-ID: <161227015426.23782.1117331867105967957.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I'm pleased to announce that the local computer authorities on my base machine, the Bloomsbury Computing Consortium Time-Sharing System, have now established a public directory for anonymous ftp. I have been given my own corner of this directory, called .../ucgadkw. Indologists: I have placed the Sanskrit text files of Panini, Asvaghosa and Varahamihira in the directory pub/users/ucgadkw/indology as ZIP files. These are the original versions of the files, as stored at the Liverpool LISTSERV, not the CSXified versions stored in the Washington black box. Do you think I should store both versions? In general, how should we deal with multiple versions? Don't forget to use binary mode to ftp them. TeXnicians: I have placed the latest version of EDMAC, the critical edition typesetting package for TeX, in the directory pub/users/ucgadkw/edmac. This is version 3.0, which is more up-to-date than the version on the Newcastle mailbase system. You will also find a ZIP file contributed by Wayne Sallivan called edstanza.zip which contains a documented EDMAC style file for typesetting poetry in stanzas which may have wrapped lines which shouldn't get added line numbers. (Thanks, Wayne.) Again, these are ZIP files; transfer in binary mode. The network address of this machine is ftp.bcc.ac.uk, but the setup is so new that the address may not work immediately. Please don't expect success for a few days. I'm going away now, until 14th August, so napoo from me for a while. Best wishes, and apologies to Indologists for the unwanted EDMAC information, and to the TeXnicians for the unwanted Sanskrit information! Dominik From madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM Fri Jul 10 16:57:08 1992 From: madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM (madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 12:57:08 -0400 Subject: Some new items of information: Message-ID: <161227015428.23782.8109781353325212400.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> For those who use Macintosh computers: I have designed a Roman diacritics postscript font called Manjushree which provides all the diacritics for Roman characters I could think of. Secondly, I am also close to finishing work on a Devanagari font called Madhushree. This font closely imitates the Nirnayasagara Devanagari. Anybody interested to know more about should contact me: Madhav Deshpande, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, 3070 Frieze Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Second item of information is that Kluwer Publishers recently published as volume 13 of their Studies of Classical India the following book of mine: The Meaning of Nouns, Semantic Theory in Classical and Medieval India. Namarthanirnaya of Kaundabhatta. Trans. and annotated by Madhav M. Deshpande. Madhav Deshpande From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Fri Jul 10 17:05:36 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 18:05:36 +0100 Subject: Numerical IP address for ftp Message-ID: <161227015430.23782.14123562127697195255.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The numerical IP address for ftp.bcc.ac.uk is 144.82.100.41 at the moment. This may change. The address "ftp.bcc.ac.uk" will not change. But if you want to connect *today* the numerical address works and the text one doesn't. Best wishes, Dominik From MERRY.B at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVM Mon Jul 13 22:16:06 1992 From: MERRY.B at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVM (MERRY.B at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVM) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 22:16:06 +0000 Subject: COVER NOTE - MSS FOR SALE Message-ID: <161227015431.23782.16341325328064150608.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Allen Thrasher of the Library of Congress asked me to forward his note about mss. available for sale. I apologize for note deleting the personal forward, but I'm sure you can do so before redistributing. Merry Burlingham --- -------------( Forwarded letter follows )----------------------- --- Received: from UTXVM by utxvm.cc.utexas.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6571; Mon, 13 Jul 92 16:12:38 CST DATE: Monday, 13 July 92 16:10:58 CST TO: LYAA101 at utxvm.cc.utexas.edu FROM: LLMLB%UTXDP.BITNET at utxvm.cc.utexas.edu Subject: COVER NOTE - MSS FOR SALE FORWARDED BY LLMLB *** ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS **** Received: from MAIL.LOC.GOV by utxvm.cc.utexas.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 13 Jul 92 15:32:22 CST Received: by MAIL.LOC.GOV (Soft-Switch Central V4L380P1); 13 Jul 1992 16:31:16 GMT Message-Id: Date: 13 Jul 92 16:32:04 GMT From: "ALLEN W THRASHER" Subject: MSS FOR SALE To: @UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU:LLMLB at UTXDP.BITNET Comment: MSS FOR SALE Merry, I am frantically trying to get ready to go to the beach with my family (week before July 4) and don't have the time to figure out how to get onto the CONSALD and INDOLOGY nets. Could you please forward this message to those nets and any more you think appropriate? Thanks, Allen INFORMATION ON MSS OFFERED FOR SALE In recent months Allen Thrasher at Library of Congress has had offered to him for sale a number of mss which LC policies do not allow its acquiring. If your institution would be interested please contact him. These are the categories: Mss on battle of Plassey and trial of Warren Hastings. US dealer. Misc. unidentified palmleaf Mss in Malayalam or Grantha scripts. Foreign dealer. Ms books of letters from British authorities to Mahraja Serfoji of Tanjore and his son. Foreign dealer. Ms of Sindhi poetry. U.S. dealer. Allen Thrasher Senior Reference Librarian Southern Asia Section Library of Congress LA133 Washington, DC 20540 tel. 202-707-5600 fax 202-707-1724 thrashermail.loc.gov From rwl at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.EMX Tue Jul 14 14:32:10 1992 From: rwl at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.EMX (Richard Lariviere) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 09:32:10 -0500 Subject: Some new items of information: Message-ID: <161227015433.23782.770640977177931108.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Madhav, What is the price of your Mac fonts? Richard From INDINST at UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Wed Jul 15 09:03:00 1992 From: INDINST at UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX (INDINST at UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 09:03:00 +0000 Subject: NUMATA VISITOR IN BUDDHIST STUDIES Message-ID: <161227015435.23782.6894928857151622407.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Balliol College, Oxford invites applications for the post of Numata Visitor in Buddhist Studies. The position is to be held for not less than 10 and not more than 24 consecutive weeks between the beginning of October and the end of June, tenure to include at least one term of 8 weeks, at any time between October 1993 and June 1997. The Visitor will give lectures and classes on Buddhism under the aegis of the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. Ability to conduct a class on a Buddhist text in a classical language will be an advantage. The Yehan Numata Fund for Buddhist Studies will pay the Visitor a stipend at a rate appropriate to seniority plus the cost of travel between the Visitor's normal residence and Oxford and the cost of accomodation in Oxford. The Visitor will have rights in the Balliol Senior Common Room, including certain free meals in College. Enquiries concerning this appointment should be addressed to the Senior Tutor, Balliol College, Oxford. OX1 3BJ. Applications including a CV and list of publications should also be sent to him. The College proposes to appoint one Numata Visitor each academic year. Applications can be made at any time, but those for the academic year 1993/94 should reach the Senior Tutor by 1st December 1992. From magier at EDU.COLUMBIA.CC.CUNIXF Fri Jul 17 19:03:14 1992 From: magier at EDU.COLUMBIA.CC.CUNIXF (David Magier) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 15:03:14 -0400 Subject: Arabic/Persian/Urdu OCR Message-ID: <161227015437.23782.6330249336326889300.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Below is from an article in MacWeek (7/13/92, p.18), which appears as a sidebar to a major article on optical character recognition software for the Macintosh from CTA Inc. (25 Science Park, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, phone: (203) 786-5828, FAX: 786-5833). Everyone has always said, as a prime example of the weakness of OCR technology, that it would be YEARS before anyone managed to come up with OCR software that would recognize Arabic. But now that it exists, it opens all sorts of possibilities for text analysis of Arabic/Urdu/Persian poetry, digital text storage and retrieval, e-text archives (available by ftp) in each of these languages, etc. etc. Of course the software isn't cheap, but it's certainly cheap enough to make librarians and scholars stop and consider it for possible projects that could benefit us all... (By the way, I have no affiliation with CTA, and no direct knowledge of the software described, other than the article I'm passing along below. Hope you find it as intriguing as I do). /David -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ____________________________ 304 International Affairs /// -- David Magier -- \\\ Columbia University ||| Head, AREA STUDIES ||| New York, N.Y. 10027 ||| S&SE Asia, Latin America, ||| (212) 854-8046 / FAX: 212 222-0331 \\\ Mid-East, Slavic, Africa /// --------------------------- magier at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu ----------------cut here---------------------------------- CTA makes first foray into Arabic recognition CTA Inc. has announced a new version of its OCR software that the company said provides the first omnifont recognition of Arabic text. TextPert Arabic, available now for $1,495, recognizes documents ranging from 10 to 72 points in several typeset Arabic script styles and fonts, including Persian and Urdu. It can capture Arabic text at a rate of 2,500 characters per minute, CTA said. It also handles 32 Indo-European languages and can recognize pages containing Arabic and non-Arabic alphabets in separate text blocks. Like the Indo-European version, TextPert Arabic lets users specify text blocks to recognize and supports batch processing of TIFF files. A version of the program also is available with CTA's TextPert High Speed RISC board for $5,995. The program comes with Arabic and English software and documentation. According to CTA, TextPert Arabic was created at the request of Apple Europe, which helped fund the project and is offering the product through European dealers. CTA said its contract with Apple stipulates that TextPert Arabic will be available exclusively on the Mac for an undisclosed period of time. From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Mon Jul 20 09:34:52 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 10:34:52 +0100 Subject: Indology posts advertised in Leipzig Message-ID: <161227015438.23782.17157280737047781723.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> [From Die Zeit, 3 July, 1992:] Universitaet Leipzig An der Universitaet Leipzig sind folgende Professorenstellen (C4 und C3) und Hochschuldozentenstellen (C2) zu besetzen: Bezeichnung des Fachgebietes | Bez. d. Stelle | Kennzahl -----------------------------|----------------|----------------- .. | | | | Sanskritistik und | | Indische Altertumskunde | C4 | SA-IN-014 | | Moderne Indologie | C2 | MO-IN-015 | | .. | | [omission of scores of other posts in all fields, arts and sciences, including other Oriental subjects such as Arabistik, Indonesistik, Sinologie, Ethnologie, Vorderorientalische Religionsgeschichte und Islamwissenschaft, etc. It looks as though they are rebuilding the university.] Zu den Aufgaben der Stelleninhaberinnen/Stelleninhaber gehoert neben der qualifizierten Vertretung des jeweiligen Faches in der Lehre und in speziellen Gebieten der Forschung sowie den weiteren in den PP 49 und 53 des Saechischen Hochschulerneuerungsgesetzes vom 25 Juli 1991 (SaechsHEG) fieierten Aufgaben auch die aktive Mitwirkung beim Aufbau der Struktureinheiten der Universitaet Leipzig. Die Bewerberinnen/Bewerber muessen die Berufungsvoraussetzungen gemaess P 50 des SaechsHEG erfuellen. Die Bereitschaft zur fachuebergreifenden Arbeit wird erwartet. Die Berufung von Hochschuldozenten erfolgt gemaess P 53, Abs. 3 SaechsHEG fuer die Dauer von sechs Jahren. Sas Arbeitsverhaeltnis ist -- von begruendeten Ausnahmefaellen abgesehen -- befristet. Die Universitaet ist bemueht, Frauen im Rahmen der gesetzlichen Vorschriften besonders zu foerdern, und bittet deshalb qualifizierte Frauen nachdruecklich, sich zu bewerben. Die detaillierte Beschreibung jeder einzelnen Stelle kann in der Bibliothek der Universitaet Leipzig (Lesesaal Beethovenstrasse und Lesesaal Augustusplatz), den Bibliotheken der TU Dresden, der TU Chemnitz, der Bergakademie Freiberg, an der TH Leipzig, der PH Leipzig, der Handelshochschule Leipzig, der Musikhochschule Leipzig, der GHochschule fuer Verkehrswesen Dresden, der PH Dresden, der Ingenieurhochschule Mittweida, den Technischen Hochschulen Zittau und Zwickau eingesehen werden. Bei fehlenden beamtenrechtlichen Vorassetzungen kann die Einstellung im Angeselltenverhaeltnis erfolgen. Bewerbungen mit Lichtbild, tabellarischem Lebenslauf, Darstellung des wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsweges, Liste der wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten sowie einer beglaubigten Kopie der Urkunde ueber den hoechsten erwobenen akademischen Grad sind unter Angabe der Kennzahl bis 24. Juli 1992 zu richten an: ------------------------------------------- Universitaet Leipzig Dezernat fuer Personalwesen Goethestrasse 3 - 5 O-7010 Leipzig Bitte auf dem Briefumschlag oben links deutlich lesbar das Wort ---------- "Bewerbung" und die Kennzahl angeben, da ansonsten keine ----------- -------- Bearbeitung moeglich ist. (Diese Ausschreibung erfolgt im Auftrag des Saechsichen Ministeriums fuer Wissenschaft und Kunst.) From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Mon Jul 20 09:39:58 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 10:39:58 +0100 Subject: Velthuis Devanagari fonts for Macintosh TeX (OzTeX) Message-ID: <161227015440.23782.4535528665099249428.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> --- Forwarded mail from Stephen Miller >From local.general.uktex Sun Jul 19 22:58:11 1992 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 11:34:00 +0000 From: Stephen Miller Subject: Velthuis Devanagari fonts for OzTeX The Velthuis Devanagari fonts are now available for use with OzTeX: the pre-processor was compiled by Peter Robinson from the "Computers and Manuscripts" project and many thanks are due to him for this task. The manual accompanying the fonts/pre-processor is available as an OzTeX DVI file. The pre-processor has been used on the test file with success: it has not however been subjected to a more lengthy test--feedback welcome. Send it to me and not to the list please. 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Peter Abbott Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD (for Quarter-inch cartridges ONLY -- must include stamps for return postage) \section UK TeX USERS GROUP For details, contact: Geeti Granger, Text Processing Dept, John Wiley & Sons, Baffins Lane, Chichester, W Sussex PO19 1UD (tel: 0243 770329) or David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services, 30 Edgerton Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield HD3 3AD (tel: 0484 519462) \bye --- End of forwarded message from Stephen Miller From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Tue Jul 21 11:29:11 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 12:29:11 +0100 Subject: Malayalam font (still in progress...) Message-ID: <161227015442.23782.6322787019968824556.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> INDOLOGISTs will be pleased to hear that Jeroen Hellingman is nearly finished with a new Metafont of the Malayalam script. Jeroen says, \quote I don't mind if you tell people about it, but it is not completely ready for distribution now, so people who want to use will have to wait for I guess about a month from now. I am still having some problems with TeX, both the preprocessor and the font need to be refined and debugged, and I have to get the spacing right. But progress is still steady, and now I have a preprocessor in working order, which is table driven, a bit modular, and thus easily adaptable to other scripts. (This will save me time in future projects). \endquote For those who are not conversant with Metafont, it is a font-description language and compiler which -- given a detailed description of a font -- can generate font bitmap files at any resolution, with fine tuning for any particular printing device (dot matrix, laser, typesetter, screen). Such fonts are used with TeX and some other systems like Scribe, and some roff variants. Jeroen's address is Jeroen Hellingman E-mail: 't Zand 2 Phone: +31-3473-73935 (home) 4133 TB Vianen (18.00--21.00 GMT) The Netherlands Answer in English, German, or Dutch. but don't contact him about the Malayalam if you can help it. I'll make an announcement here as soon as anything is generally available. Best wishes, Dominik From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Tue Jul 21 11:45:34 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 12:45:34 +0100 Subject: Text of Saundaryalahari available Message-ID: <161227015443.23782.13656649710928077180.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to the continuing energy of Peter Schreiner, we now have the text of Sankara's Saundaryalahari. This will shortly be available for anonymous ftp as the file sanksaun.zip in directory pub/users/ucgadkw/indology on the machine ftp.bcc.ac.uk, as announced recently. Do you want me to lodge the file at Liverpool too, so that it can be accessed via LISTSERV? Contact me, if so. Best wishes, Dominik From madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM Tue Jul 21 18:25:12 1992 From: madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM (madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:25:12 -0400 Subject: Madhushree and Manjushree Fonts Message-ID: <161227015445.23782.16665990753053107946.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Dominic, In the latest phase of these fonts, they each come as a family of four varieties, i.e. normal, italic, bold, and bold-italic. Only one name appears in the Mac font menu for each family, and one can switch to the appropriate variety simply by clicking for bold, italic etc. Both the fonts, Madhushree (Devanagari) and Manjushree (TimesRoman, Diacritics) are postscript fonts and have screen fonts down to 12 point for Madhushree and 10 point for Manjushree. Dominic, I would like to explain why I have not followed the CSX standard for the diacritic font. Your CSX coding makes good sense when used for extended characters of the IBM set. However, when used in Chi-Writer, it would not make sense, nor does it make sense for the Mac keyboard. Just to give one example, the CSX uses the ascii code 167 for m with the underdot. This ascii value is accessible on the Mac keyboard by pressing Option-s. It makes far more sense on the Mac to use this key for palatal or retroflex s, than for m with underdot. My keyboard layout for Manjushree, as well as my diacritics keyboard on the Chi-Writer, makes it visually easy to keep track of most frequently used diacritics by correlating them with the normal layout of the keyboard. I have done the same for my devanagari font. If one must convert a file from Manjushree to CSX, I suppose one can easily create a version of the CONVERT program. You are of course correct that the postscript font is not limited to the Mac. It can be transported to Windows either as a postscript font or as a truetype font. However, I have not found an easy way of keyboarding on Windows. At least as far as I know, there is nothing to make it as simple as pressing the Option-key combination on the Mac. I will keep you posted on the development of these fonts. I am feverishly working on them, so that beginning September, I can use these fonts to work on my new edition of Shaunakiiya Caturaadhyaayikaa. I will be in Pune working at the BORI from September to March. With all the best, Madhav From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Tue Jul 21 21:35:46 1992 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 22:35:46 +0100 Subject: Sanskrit conference in Krakow, 1993. Message-ID: <161227015447.23782.13424386082797566993.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Transcript of the first conference mailing: First Announcement International Conference on Sanskrit and Related Studies September 23-26, 1993 Cracow, Poland Jagiellonian University It is our great honour to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Sanskrit and Related Studies which is to be held in Cracow from 23.09 to 26.09. 1993. The conference is meant to commemorate the centenary of Sanskrit studies at the Jagiellonian University by providing a meeting point for an exchange of ideas in the field of Indology. The language of the conference is English. Pre-registration fee ------------------- $100 per person will be payable to bank account: Bank Przemyslowo Handlowy IV Oddzial Krakow, Acc; 323415 - 1023, Sanskrit Conference, Jagiellonian University till the end of January 1993. After this date registration fee is $120 (US dollars). This fee covers participation at the Conference, the publication of selection of teh papers delivered as well as a cocktail reception and farewell party (a cancellation fee of $30 may be applicable). Accommodation ------------- Details will be given in the second announcement. Abstracts --------- The title of the proposed paper preferably together with a short preliminary abstract (100-200 words) should be sent to the Conference Office till the end of January 1993, however the registration form should be sent by the end of November 1992. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to reject papers on basis of the abstract. The Conference Office --------------------- Iwona Milewska or Lidia Sudyka Sanskrit Conference Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Al. Mickiewicza 9/11, 31-120 Krakow, Poland Tel.: (4812) 33-63-77 ext. 326 Honorary Committee ------------------ President: Prof. G. Oberhammer Members: His Excellency The Ambassador of India in Poland, J. Doddamani Rector of the Jagiellonian University, Prof. Andrzej Pelczar Prof. J. Brockington Prof. M. K. Byrski Prof. Ch. Malamoud Prof. H. Walkowska Organizing Committee -------------------- President: Dr P. Piekarski Secretaries: I. Milewska L. Sudyka Members: M. Czerniak-Drozdzowicz C. Galewicz H. Slowik G. Stolarska The Centenary of Sanskrit Chair in Crackow, 1893-1993 ------------------------------------------------------ Sanskrit has been taught at the Jagiellonian University since 1860. however, a chair of Sanskrit was established for Leon Mankowski in 1893. Since then, studies have been continued there by such scholars as Andrzej Gawronski, Helena Willman-Grabowska, Tadeusz Pobozniak and their disciples. They coverred a wide range of subjects from linguistics to literature, poetics, mythology, religion and philosophy. Sanskrit, Vedic, Prakrits together with Romani and Hindi languages have all been taught there at some stage. Nowadays, the two main branches are Sanskrit and Hindi Studies, research focusing on Sanskrit poetics, epos and folk-tales on the one hand and Hindi linguistics on the other. ============================ In case you wish to receive all forthcoming information about the conference you are kindly requested to fill in this card and forward it to the address indicated above, before the end of November 1992. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Registration form ----------------- Surname ......................................................... Name ........................................................... Title ........................................................... Institution ..................................................... Country ......................................................... Address for correspoindence ..................................... Tel. ............................................................ Fax ............................................................. Participant with a/ full time papers (20 min) ....................... b/ none ............................................ Title of paper .................................................. From madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM Wed Jul 22 14:21:18 1992 From: madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM (madhav.deshpande at EDU.UMICH.CC.UM) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10:21:18 -0400 Subject: Madhushree and Manjushree Fonts Message-ID: <161227015450.23782.3412456603272630360.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Stephen Miller has made a valuable suggestion. It is possible to keep the CSX coding and yet develop a different keyboard driver. I was trying to keep my work to a minimum. However, if I can develop a keyboard driver to my satisfaction, I will certainly rearrange the characters in my font to conform to CSX. Thanks, Stephen. Madhav Deshpande From STEPHEN at UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Wed Jul 22 11:53:00 1992 From: STEPHEN at UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX (Stephen Miller) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:53:00 +0000 Subject: Madhushree and Manjushree Fonts Message-ID: <161227015448.23782.5399518191111287960.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Once again confusion between where characters are located in a font and how characters in a font are accessed: any font developed for the Macintosh can be laid down with characters conforming to the CSX coding/positions if you are using a tool such as Fontographer. If you want to access those characters by using keyboard sequences which in some way, degree, or form, relate to a particular character then you simply develop a keyboard driver in order to enable you to do so -- after all, the Macintosh comes with different keyboard layouts for a starter. Stephen Miller Oxford University Computing Services