NEW UTILITY> Vaccent (J.D. Smith)

[Richard MAHONEY]

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From: John Smith <jds10 at cam.ac.uk>
To: Richard Mahoney <r.mahoney at indica-et-buddhica.org>
Cc: John Smith <jds10 at cam.ac.uk>
Subject: vaccent
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:03:52 +0100

Dear Richard,

Would you be willing to post an announcement to the Indology mailing
list on my behalf? ...


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I have placed a new utility on my website, which may be of interest to
people who work with Vedic. It is called vaccent, and it permits the
user to convert a Vedic text in Roman transliteration (using acute and
grave accents to indicate udatta and independent svarita) to a
Devanagari equivalent, correctly accented according to the system used
in the RV, AV, TS etc.

The vaccent program (which is written in Perl) merely outputs an
intermediate file; to convert this file to Devanagari the general
Roman-to-Devanagari conversion program ur2ud is also needed. Both are
available at

  http://bombay.indology.info/software/programs/index.html

Note that both Roman input and Devanagari output are in Unicode; the
input file must follow the ISO 15919 transliteration standard. The
same web page contains numerous other conversion utilities if your
starting point is something other than standard Unicode Roman.

John Smith

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Many thanks,
John

Dr J. D. Smith
jds10 at cam.ac.uk
http://bombay.indology.info


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