[XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

[Neal Delmonico]

Thanks Dominik,

I tried the sed file and it works wonderfully, in fact a little too well.   
My files tend to be mixed Sanskrit and translation in which I use the  
standard LaTeX diacritic codes.  "\~n" gets picked up by the sed file and  
converted and then XeLaTeX chokes on it.  Is there a way around this?  I  
can, of course, search and replace those unwanted conversions, but it is a  
little less convenient.

What is involved in writing a XeTeX TEC file?  I've looked at the map  
files.  Is it mostly a matter of substituting the Unicode codes with other  
Unicode codes to produce Romanized output instead of Devanagari?  Is it  
possible for a semi-computer literate person like myself to do that?   
Where would I start?

Thanks again for your help.

Best

Neal

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:05:51 -0600, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I tend to do this just with a sed script, for the file as a whole (sed  
> file
> attached, originally from Richard Mahoney, but edited by me).  It  
> wouldn't
> be that hard to write a xetex TEC file to do this, but I'm not aware of
> anyone actually having done it yet.  It would be nice to have, I agree.
> Dominik
> <https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIzNzI2MTY5>
>
>
> On 2 February 2011 23:34, Neal Delmonico <ndelmonico at sbcglobal.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there any easy way to get from Velthuis Devanagari encoding to Roman
>> transliteration?  I have lots of documents in Velthuis that I would  
>> like to
>> switch to Roman transliteration sometimes without having to type them in
>> again.  If there is a way to just substitute some LaTex codes, that  
>> would be
>> tremendous.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neal
>>
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