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Resources

This section is a collection of resources we've found helpful and believe are of potential interest for our users as well. If there are more resources you feel deserve adding to the selection, please contact us.

Conversion tools

The world is full of preferences when it comes to transliterating Sanskrit. The following tools should be able to accommodate the needs of the vast majority of our audience.

• diCrunch – Diacritic and script cruncher  ·  Open online tool
  Handles Balaram / CSX / (X)HK / ITRANS / Shakti Mac / Unicode / Velthuis / X-Sanskrit / Bengali Unicode / Devanagari Unicode / Oriya Unicode.
• GGM Encoding Convertor (JavaScript) v1.30  ·  Open online tool | Read more
  Handles Balaram / CSX / HK / ITRANS / Unicode / Velthuis.
• ITranslator  ·  Visit website
  For processing ITRANS-files into Devanagari and Roman transliteration.

Macros

The following macros are for use with Microsoft Word. These represent some of the more common conversions. Macros offering conversion between most transliteration standards can be generated with the diCrunch tool.

• Balaram to Harvard-Kyoto | ITRANS | Unicode
• Harvard-Kyoto to Balaram | ITRANS | Unicode
• ITRANS to Balaram | Harvard-Kyoto | Unicode
• Unicode to Balaram | Harvard-Kyoto | ITRANS

The above files are all in plain text format. Installation instructions are included in the files themselves.

Software

The following is a selection of software that'll help in working both withour documents as well as in general with documents with diacritics or Indic text.

• GGM XHK Keyboard  ·  Download | Instructions
  A Windows keyboard for entering Unicode diacritics with a Harvard-Kyoto keyboard mapping.
• Balaram diacritic tools  ·  DiacWin | KeySans | DevaWin
  The first two small tools are input methods for Windows, the third converts Balaram to Devanagari.

Fonts

• For showing Harvard-Kyoto text as diacritics  ·  Veni XHK Sans Condensed | Veni XHK Serif Condensed
  You can type in Harvard-Kyoto without any tools and select this font – everything will automagically appear as diacritics.
• For Balaram-encoded files  ·  Balaram | PalladioGM | More
• For Devanagari in some files  ·  Devanagari-font
• For files with Unicode diacritics  ·  DejaVu | Gentium

Online resources

To complete your collections and to quench your thirst for knowledge, you may also browse the following sites.