[INDOLOGY] MacDevnag on 64-bit systems

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I like and use Somdev Vasudev's Romdev myself, for telling XeTeX how to
turn IAST encoding into Devanagari.  It does a great job.

But don't get it from the indology archive.  Go to Github.  I haven't
checked, but I am pretty sure the Github version is more up-to-date:

   - https://github.com/somadeva/RomDev

The only thing is, you have to download it and install it.  That's quite
easy, if you know your computer well and love reading documentation
(Mmmm).  But the standard TeX distribution, TeXlive, has a ready-made IAST
translator already pre-installed, called, er, iast.  So one can say

Mapping=iast,

and it just works.  No installation necessary.  This iast translator, and
the velthuis one and a Harvard-Kyoto one, we owe to the kindness of Daniel
Stender.

   - https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/devanagari?lang=en

But this link is only for interest; it's already installed on all systems
that use TeXlive, so there's no need to fetch it.

Best,
Dominik

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk
<https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.


South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca


On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 14:05, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Tim,
>
> You can use RomDev available at https://indology.info/etexts/archive/soft/ and
> MacTex/TexLive mentioned in Dominik’s posting. I have been using these on a
> Mac since 2013, when I could not coax MacDevnag and TexLive to produce
> texts longer than 2 or 3 pages. I also found articles at
> https://cikitsa.blogspot.com (Dominik’s site).
>
> Best,
>
> Elliot
>
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Lubin, Tim via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear TeXies on the list,
>
> My university is pushing me to update my Mac OS to Catalina, which cannot
> run 32-bit applications.  I am still using MacDevnag as a preprocessor to
> generate Devanagari output from my LaTeX files.  I am going to appease them
> for now by upgrading to Mojave, which can run 32-bit (yes, I am an update
> laggard, still running [Low] Sierra!), but that is inevitably just a
> temporary fix.  I confess to being only semi-literate in LaTeX and XeLaTeX,
> so I may have missed a crucial new development.
>
> So far as I can see from
> https://bdesgraupes.pagesperso-orange.fr/sanskrit.html
>  https://bdesgraupes.pagesperso-orange.fr/DocHTML/MacDevnagHelp/index.html
> there is no 64-bit version, and likely never will be.
>
> Those of you who are au courant, how should I be dealing with this
> problem.  Due to laggardliness, I am still finalizing a volume using
> MacDevnag and am reluctant to attempt to reconfigure things altogether at
> this late stage in the process.
>
> With fingers crossed,
> Tim
>
>
>
> Timothy Lubin
> Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
> 204 Tucker Hall
> Washington and Lee University
> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>
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> National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, 2020–21
>
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