SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts

[Birgit Kellner]

Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> http://bombay.indology.info is John Smith's website (guest hosted by 
> INDOLOGY).  There you can find the IndUni font family, which are very 
> finely designed and optimized for Indic transliteration.  John also 
> makes available a very convenient keyboard handler for Windows (that's 
> what I use) and another for the Mac.  Using the IndUni unicode fonts 
> (or any Unicode font) and the keyboard handler makes it extremely easy 
> to type romanized Sanskrit. (RightAlt+a = ā (a-macron), etc.)  John 
> has done us all a great service.
>
> There are probably several other keyboard systems and fonts out there 
> if one searches, but I can vouch for the simplicity and excellence of 
> John's under Windows.  I haven't used the Mac one.
>
> If you're using Linux, there's a nice system that works with SCIM 
> (http://www.scim-im.org/), called m17n 
> (http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-en/). A bit cryptic to install, but in 
> fact easy, and also very easy to modify for oneself.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
For those who read German, the weblog "Flammschild's jālsthāna" from 
Heidelberg has very useful directions for keyboard configuration in both 
Windows and Linux:

Windows: 
http://flammschild.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/12/25/eingabemethoden-unter-windows/

Linux (scim + m17n on Ubuntu): 
http://flammschild.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/12/22/eingabemethoden-unter-ubuntu/

Best,

Birgit Kellner