[Announcement]sa.ra.dA.lO raMgavalli - Transliteration Software

Prasad Chodavarapu (chprasad@hotmail.com)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:45:06 PST 

[see 
http://acm7.me.uiuc.edu/~prasad/Rangavalli/saradA.html
for a html version of this document]


sa.ra.dA.lO raMgavalli

Introduction

sa.ra.dA. (samAcAra rahadAri) lO raMgavalli is a Netscape-Composer 
Plugin that converts transliterated telugu text in web-pages/e-mail 
messages into
tikkana fonts.  It allows the end user to highlight transliterated 
portions of a web page and convert  it to tikkana fonts instantly. This 
is useful for reading all
web pages that are lying out there with transliterated text. If one is 
also using the browser as an e-mail reader (e.g. Yahoo or Hotmail), 
great, one can now
read his/her e-mail in telugu using tikkana fonts. 
  

Requirements

a) Netscape Communicator 4.04 or later that comes with Netscape Page 
Composer: This can be freely downloaded from 
http://home.netscape.com/free.html 

b) tikkana Fonts: These are available for Windows NT/95 for now. For 
X-Windows, contact SrI juvvAdi ramaNa, who rehashed popular Potana fonts 
of 
SrI tirumalakRshNa dESikAcAry for technical reasons. 
  
  

Installation for Windows 95/NT

     Download sa.ra.dA.lO raMgavalli as a zip file from 
http://acm7.me.uiuc.edu/~prasad/Rangavalli/saradA.zip 
     Using WinZip (freely available from http://www.winzip.com), extract 
the following files from saradA.zip into a temporary folder 
          cpsaradA.jar 
          tikkana_.ttf 
          README.html 
     Install tikkana fonts: Cilck on Windows "Start" Menu, first choose 
"Settings" and then "Control Panel". In the control panel, double click 
on "Fonts"
     to open the Fonts panel. Now choose "Install New Font" in "File" 
Menu and choose the directory into which you have extracted tikkana_.ttf 
in the
     step above. You should now see "Tikkana (True Type)" in the list of 
fonts. Select it and click OK. You should now have tikkana fonts 
installed on
     your system. To verify, open WORD/WordPad or any other editor and 
look to see if tikkana appears as one of the fonts that you can choose. 
     Copy cpsaradA.jar to your Netscape PlugIns folder. If you have used 
the defaults while installing Netscape, this should be 
     C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins 
     Restart Netscape. 

  

Instructions for Use

     Load the web  page you wish to see into Netscape Communicator 
     If you find some telugu text transliterated using modified (see 
below) Rice Transliteration Scheme(RTS) , click on "Edit Page" or "Edit 
Frame" in
     Netscape Communicator's File Menu. This will open the web page for 
editing in  Netscape Composer. 
          Alternatively, click on "Page Composer" in the "Communictor" 
Menu to first open Composer. Then, use Ctrl+O or "Open Page" in "File"
          Menu and give the address of the page you wish to see and 
edit. 
          In case you want to make a page rather than visit one, just 
open Page Composer as explained above and type transliterated text. 
     Once the page is loaded into the composer, highlight transliterated 
text that you wish to convert to tikkana fonts. 
     Click on "Tools" Menu and select "sa.ra.dA.lO raMgavalli" under 
"Transliteration" Menu. 
     You should now be seeing the highlighted text in  tikkana fonts. 
You can change the size of the fonts by highlighting the text and 
setting a new font
     size in the composer. 
     If the web page you visited is simple in layout, you may be finsih 
here itself. But if it is cluttered up by detail, click on "Preview" in 
the Composer
     Toolbar and follow instructions to see the page in the Netscape 
Communicator browser window. However, to do this, you will first need to 
save the
     page in a temporary file. 

  

Differences with RTS

      sunna can only be obtained with M e.g. gAMdhi would work, gAndhi 
wouldn't. 
      Bcos of unicode treating ksha as k with sha vottu, x is no longer 
considered as ksh 
      No telugu digits. 

 Related Links

If you are looking for a more sophisticated WYSIWYG editor of telugu 
transliteration look at the following links 

     raMgavalli-1.2 and mEghasamdESaM-1.1: A Java based Visual 
Plain-Text Editor/Web-Browser/E-Mail Tool for telugu 
     telugu Lipi written by SrI SrinivAs sirigina 

For high quality type setiing applications, look at 

     RIT-3.0 and its web interface 
     RIT-2.0  web interface 

Disclaimer

sa.ra.dA.lO raMgavalli comes with no warranty and is free for 
non-commercial uses only. ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED. 

Questions, Comments or Suggestions

You can mail  Prasad A. Chodavarapu for further info. 




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