[Tugindia] help required for using "skt" package in LaTeX

[Somnath Sikdar]

Hi,

Try compiling using latex and then use dvips to convert to a .ps file and 
check if the fonts are okay. If yes, try dvipdf to convert the .dvi file 
to a .pdf file. That should work. If the ps file doesn't show the required 
fonts, then propbably you haven't installed the package properly.

Somnath.



On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Amuthan Arunkumar wrote:

> Dear Members,
>
> I recently downloaded and installed Charles Wikner's 'skt' package for
> typesetting sanskrit text in devanagari. I somehow managed to install it. I
> have a peculiar problem. To state it as clearly as possible, let me give a
> sample input i gave
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{skt}
> \begin{document}
> {\skt raama}
> \end{document}
>
> There were no problems during compilation (I used pdflatex for creating the
> .pdf file). But the .pdf file showed the sanskrit equivalent of 'graama - g'
> (this is the closest possible way I can represent the output). More
> explicitly, I'm having problems getting the required output when I enter the
> english transliteration scheme. I'm not able to generate ra, da, and many
> other symbols though some approximate equivalent like 'r' for 'ra', 'd' or
> 'daa' for 'da', 'daha' for 'dha', 'm u' for 'mo' etc. are generated instead.
>
> I have no idea why this is happening. Can someone help?
>
> Thanking you in advance,
> Amuthan.
>
> --
> Amuthan Arunkumar R,
> Final Yr, B.Tech/M.Tech Dual Degree,
> Dept. Aerospace Eng., IIT Madras.
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