Dear Patrick,

There are quite a lot of free online tools that do this now: 

<http://learnsanskrit.org/tools/sanscript>
<http://www.tyfen.com/sanscription/>
<http://www.yash.info/indianLanguageConverter/hindi.html>

For professional typesetting purposes, XeLaTeX with TECkit works beautifully: <http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-do-i-install-romdev-mapping-for.html>

Best,

Michael Slouber


On Mar 26, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Patrick Olivelle wrote:

Dear All:

Can you recommend a font/program which would allow a Sanskrit text to be typed in Roman and to be converted immediately to Devanagari? I have noted some such programs Developed in India. Thanks.

Patrick Olivelle