Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe" <joe@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> >
> >
> > > And here is the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary on
CD-Rom -
> > Only
> > > $7.95 -
> > >
> >
>
http://www.matchless-gifts.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id
> > > =65&ad=sangoogle
> > >
> > > Does someone know how I can write in Sanskrit under Windows 98 with
all
> > the
> > > (historic or modern) ligatures?
> >
> > letter+virama+letter, usually.  For instance,(with ' as an acute)
|as'va|
> > <अश्व>[@CP@]'horse'.  I suggest you use Arial Unicode to view that.  It
> > often doesn't work with other fonts.  The only way I manage to type it
is
> to
> > type in all the unicode into an HTML document, then cut&paste into
> wherever.
>
> Well, that seems fine with Outlook Express
> (http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/skrt1.gif), but when I copy and paste
it
> to Word 2000 I get it wrong: http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/skrt2.gif.
> Any suggestions?
>
> And can I choose between the modern and the ancient ligatures?

I'm afraid you can't choose between modern and ancient ones.  I'm afraid I
don't have a clue how to paste it into Word 2000 correctly.  I'm not very
good at this stuf myself.  But if you have a virama in the middle of it, I'm
sure it will be roughly understood, even if they think you're a little odd
for doing that.

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