[INDOLOGY] Why not HK?

[Dominik A. Haas]

Dear Giulio (if I may),

Let’s not leave your question unanswered. In my experience, the vast 
majority of colleagues don’t like to read a text with too many mixed 
upper and lower case letters. They may use HK for certain software 
purposes, but never for reading. There is also the problem that you 
cannot adapt words in HK to the spelling of a language written with 
Latin letters (e.g., proper names such as Śaṅkara would no longer be so 
easily recognizable). Let’s not even start with what autocorrect does in 
such cases.

Best regards,

Dominik

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Am 04.03.2025 um 09:21 schrieb Giulio Geymonat via INDOLOGY:
> Dear list members,
> I refrained from this question since I've been following this very 
> interesting list (a couple of years) feeling that it wasn't the case 
> to ask such a banal question in such an high-profile list. But today I 
> dare to ask you very knowledgeable people (I really learned a lot of 
> things since I am following this list and I am really grateful to all 
> who wrote on the many interesting points tackled), why don't you use 
> Harvard-Kyoto?
> It would be so much easier for me to follow what interests me the most 
> in all this (and what I might have a chance to contribute in -- a very 
> slight chance indeed, to be frank), that is your interpretations of 
> sanskrit passages.
> I have no problem in reading Gretil Titus all the dictionary the 
> mahAbhArata etc. but your passages come to me full of question marks: 
> I know it's me who must be like a troglodite of fonts, but it is also 
> that I love Harvard-Kyoto and I don't understand what can be found 
> wrong with it.
> Do you find something wrong with HK? And if not, why don't you use it 
> in the emails?
> Thank you,
> Giulio Geymonat
>
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