[XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

[Neal Delmonico]

Greetings All,

Here is a map and tec file that I made up in relatively short time  
converting Roman unicode transliteration into Bengali.  I basically used  
the RomDev map as the basis of my changes.   I thought I would experiment  
with this based on Zdenek's recommendation for creating such a map.  After  
a few adjustments, it seems to work pretty well.  Bengali uses the same  
character for ba and va.  So I had to adjust the map for that.  There are  
several remaining problems.  Several of the Bengali-specific characters  
did not come through and I am not sure how to address that.  In this  
schema they need some form of Roman transliteration to convert them into.   
I am not sure if there is a settled form of Bengali transliteration.

Also there are two "ya" characters in Bengali.  One is the soft ya which  
is pronounced like the ya in Sanskrit and the other is the hard ya which  
is pronounced like ja.  Using straight replacement of unicode codes gets  
one the hard ya.  Obviously, to represent Sanskrit in Bengali script one  
needs the soft ya.  When I replace the hard ya with the soft ya in the map  
the consonant conjuncts using ya stop working.  They must be built around  
the hard ya.  I am not sure how to change this.  Something probably has to  
be added to the map, but I am not sure what or where.

I include the map and the tec and a sample of the output.

Best wishes,

Neal

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:10:51 -0500, Zdenek Wagner  
<zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/10/25 A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>:
>> I have a text like this, I typed using XeLatex. I want to change this  
>> below
>> text to Telugu font.
>> तपः स्वाध्याय निरताम् तपस्वी वाग्विदाम् वरम् | \\
>>
>> नारदम् परिपप्रच्छ वाल्मीकिः मुनि पुंगवम् || १-१-१
>>
> You need a map containing something like:
>
> LHSName "Devanagari"
> RHSName "Telugu"
> LHSDescription "Devanagari script"
> RHSDescription "Telugu script"
> Version "1"
> Contact "author's contacn"
>
> pass(Unicode)
>
> U+0901 > U+0C01
> U+0902 > U+0C02
> ...
> U+096F > U+0C6F
>
> Then compile the file by teckit_compile. See the TECkit manual.
>
>> regards
>>
>> Aku
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Tirumurti Vasudevan
>> <drtvasudevan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> well, i am a newbie myself and dont understand your problem. could you
>>> send a sample file?
>>> you want a transliteration, right?
>>> copy paste the text portions in the converter, get it converted.
>>> copy paste the sanskrit tex file into new file, replace the text  
>>> portion,
>>> redefine the script and font settings, save.
>>> done.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tirumurti Thanks for the link, but I have a tex file that I want to
>>>> convert to Telugu how can I do that
>>>
>>>
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>>> http://www.swaminathar.org/
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