[Padma] Padma Digest, Vol 21, Issue 3

[hariharan ramamurthy]

 unless some one has  a large in hundreds and thousands of  printed pages  I
strongly urge every one  to adopt unicode for every thing they do for indian
languages so that  we really  will need trasformation  less and less

On 5/12/07, V S Rawat <vsrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/10/2007 07:49 PM India Time, _Nagarjuna Venna_ wrote:
>
> > On 5/10/07, P.S.Lehal <plehal at rimptec.com> wrote:
> >> That will need manual intervention which defies the purpose. I think
> Rawat
> >
> > Depends on what the purpose is... :-)
> >
> >
> >> was also trying to do similar thing i.e. using Padma as a standalone
> >> converter. I was able to get solution to my problem by using
> getInnerHTML
> >> command. Thanks for the help.
> >
> >
> > There is a manual transformer at
> > http://www.geocities.com/vnagarjuna/padma.html. But it is based on a
> > very old code base, so anything but Telugu is unlikely to work. I am
> > planning to bring that in sync with the rest of the releases over the
> > next few weeks. I will annouce it when it is done.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nagarjuna
>
>
> I am eagerly awaiting the release of a standalone manual converter of
> padma.
>
> that would help us try the conversion manually so that we could be free
> of vast settings of firefox and thunderbird and will be able to quickly
> conclude whether it was profile/ settings problems, or whether the
> script itself needs to be looked into.
> ---------
>
> While you are releasing an standalone manual converter, would it be too
> much work to develop scripts that transform the unicoded text BACK TO
> proprietary fonts (unicode to chanakya, unicode to shusha, so on.)??
>
> I mean people are having different problems. Some have got texts typed
> in different fonts during the pre-unicode days, thus if he has, say, 10
> pages in chanakya and 2 pages in shusha, he would rather like to convert
> those 2 shusha pages to chanakya instead of doing all the way to convert
> all 12 pages to unicode. thus we can transform 2 shusha pages to unicode
> and then can transform from unicode to chanakya to give him all 12 pages
> in chanakya. people find using one whatever font more convenient,
> compared to using using unicode font.
>
> I mean, when the charater map between all these fonts and unicode is
> ready, will you please consider developing the manual transform code
> back from unicode to those fonts?
>
> Thanks a ton.
> --
> Rawat
>
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