[Tugindia] First impression of "devnag"
Sumit Bhardwaj
tugindia@tug.org
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:45:23 +0530
Hi
I don't know about others but I, Prof. Wagish Shukla and Amitabh Trehan use
devnag a lot and find it to be the best we can have. And in fact, I strongly
believe that phonetic based entry is a practical way to get things done
because since I speak five languages (3 scripts), I am not going to get 3
keyboards.
Anyhow, I think "Sumit Bhardwaj" would be written as "sumIta bhAradvAja" with
sanskrit mode in devnag and "Hardeep Singh Rai" as "haradIpa siMha rAya".
You can get some consolation by the fact that devnag like tex has a learning
curve and thus would take time.
Regards
Sumit
On Mon Dec 16 2002 17:28, H S Rai wrote:
> I installed and used "devnag" package to get output in Hindi, just out
> of curiosity, as it is not my requirement. Though I have never used
> Hindi or any other regional language, but it is my feeling that
> "phonetic based entry" should be bad as compare to normal way of
> typing because it seems un-natural to type Hindi in English. Anyhow, I
> experimented little with dev and found it is very difficult to produce
> what you want using preprocessor. Rather it is easier to type directly
> in tex file and no need to use pre-processor.
>
> I tries to get my name in Hindi. I failed to get using preprocessor
> after a large number of trials, but I could get it while working in
> tex file directly with much less number of trials.
>
> "Hardeep Singh Rai" will be written in tex as "hrdFp Es\2G rAy"
>
> What is the experience of other list members.
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