Best computer for Sanskrit?

[Prof P Kumar]

I don't want to stir up the pot. But in response to Prof Thillaud's
objection to an earlier commercial ad., would the below stuff constitute
commercial? How do we decide whether something is commercial if the below
is not one? For instance someone wanting to find a publisher for his/ her
work in Indology would have benefitted from that contact in much the same
way as someone wanting to buy Indian fonts would have benefitted from the
below info.
Pratap

>At 16:49 28/09/98 EDT, you wrote:
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>> I am undecided
>>whether to stick with the Mac or switch to Windows.
>
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>For anyone considering using Windows or Windows NT to write in Indian
>scripts I can strongly recommend the  package of fonts and keyboard program
>developped by Avinash Chopde and Shreekrishna Patil. It goes by the name of
>ILKEYB (Indian Language Keyboard Program).  The Indian Language Fonts are
>elegant and the keyboard layout program is ingeniously simple.  It has a
>simple little program which runs inconspicuously in the background, and
>with it you can write in Indian Language Fonts in just about any Windows
>word processor (MS Word, Word Perfect...).  Typing is very quick, as quick
>as you can type in English.  No need to remember any samaasa-aksharas.
>They are all produced automatically as you type.
>
>The best thing about it is the help and support accorded by Messers Chopde
>and Patil.  They are both professional programmers based in the USA.
>Although the package is a very simple self-installing affair, still if you
>have any particular needs they are ready to add things on request.
>
>Mr Chopde has also developped the ITRANS package (for UNIX and DOS) and he
>is working on a package which will work on any Operating System (IScript).
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>The ILKEYB web page:
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><http://www.aczone.com/ilkeyb/>
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>The ITRANS page:
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><http://www.aczone.com/itrans/>
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>The OS independant project:
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><http://www.aczone.com/iscript/>
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>I don't say that ILKEYB is perfect nor can I say that this package is the
>best around, because I haven't tried them all.  But I can say that I have
>used this package extensively and have found it to be elegantly simple and
>perfectly suited to my needs.
>
>And the price is VERY reasonable.
>
>
>regards,
>
>Adrian Burton
>
>
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>______________________________________________________________
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>Adrian Burton                           ph:(61) (2) 6279 8240
>South and West Asia Centre              fax:(61) (2) 6279 8326
>Faculty of Asian Studies
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>Australian National University
>0200    ACT     Australia

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