[Indic-dev] Re: [Tugindia] First impression of "devnag"

[Duvvuri Venu Gopal]

> >   > thing to produce right output  in one language (say 
>Hindi). Then
> >   > just  changing environment  should  produce  correct 
>output  for
> >   > other language  i.e then  producing output in  Punjabi, 
>Gujrati,
> >   > Marathi, should be matter of changing environment. Is it 
>so?
> >

At present it is not the case. Hindi (i.e., Devnag of Velthuse) 
follows a different approach to inputcharacters whereas TeluguTeX 
and KannadaTex and BangTex (??) follows another approach.

The differences are :  TeluguTex follows a = a & aa = A whereas 
Devnag follows a = a and aa = aa or A. TeluguTeX follows Sh = Sh 
whereas Devnag follows "s (??). This type of differences are at 
least for 10 - 15 characters. That is why I earlier pleaded to 
follow one method for all Indian languages. But no discussion 
followed on this issue.

Likewise Devnag's approach is different. First the input is to be 
processed by a PREPROCESSOR. Whereas TeluguTeX and KannadaTeX does 
not require this, you can directly process the *.tex file with TeX 
or LaTeX.

I wanted to work a full writeup on the differences between 
TeluguTeX and Devnag. Anybody interested??

VeNuGoPaL