Posting of computer, transliteration and font etc. questions to Indology

[Dr Anthony P Stone]

I would be interested in a chat room in whicb to raise problems about the
transliteration of Indic scripts.

On 16 Sept 1999, Harry Spier wrote:

> One of the areas that I am involved in is helping produce books for
> production that contain roman transliteration and/or devanagari text and I
> have found the Indology list and archives invaluable in providing
> information on fonts, standards, packages, cross-platform problems etc. and
> by the number of entries in the archives on this area it seems that many
> other members are also interested in this.
> ...
>
> It occured to me that if enough members were interested we could set up a
> chat room for this purpose.  Almost an on-line timely mutual help facility
> for this purpose.  One idea I had about the way it might work is:  If
> someone had a computer, font, or  transliteration question that needed a
> timely answer and some mutual question/answer dialogue was probably needed
> then they could send a very short posting to Indology letting them know
> there was a new question in the chat room.  Those members interested in this
> could then correspond thru the chat room without worrying about clogging
> Indology's bandwidth even if it took many back and forth messages to solve
> the problem.

Tony Stone

Dr Anthony P. Stone, Project Leader, ISO/TC46/SC2/WG12 Transliteration of Indic
scripts.
   Thinking aloud transliteration:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/translit.htm