BharatVani Hindi Teacher - Transliteration

IWrite32 Help File

Transliteration System Utility

Using IWRITE32 with Bharatvani Fonts

IWrite32 is a utility created and developed by Subhabrata Biswas and has been included in this program with his kind permission to help you write text in BharatVani and other Indian languages on Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0.

Like other Windows applications, use the File - New menu to create a new, empty document. Start typing your text following the 'Ten Commandments' of BharatVani Transliteration Map explained in the previous lessons.

When you are through, you can save your document using File - Save menu. You can convert it using your transliteration map by pressing F4. This will open a new editor sheet and display the converted text in it. You can change to BharatVani font of any part of the original or converted text to suit your needs. Once changed, this font will be remembered for your next session.

If you are not happy with the converted text, discard it and modify the orginal text you typed in and repeat the process. IWrite32 will re-use the transliteration window for showing converted text, if the window is still open. If you modify the output document in any way and attempt to transliterate the original document once again, IWrite32 will prompt you to save the output document. However, you may choose not to save it and proceed.

Please remember that if you change style or font of any text, and want to see the change later, you must save it. IWrite32 does not save font information for individual parts of text. So, next time you start a new file, it will start editing in the last English font you used. And when you convert the text, it will use the last BharatVani font you used. So, if you change the style of any part of a converted text and close the sheet without saving, you can convert the text once again, but you will have to re-do all style changes once again.

You can also embed English text in your document. If you want a section of your text passed through unconverted, wrap it between <Eng> and </Eng> tags. The text will be passed through unconverted and displayed in the English font you are currently using.

Note that the <Eng> and </Eng> are case-sensitive. So, if you use <ENG> </ENG> or <eng> </eng>, IWrite32 will convert the tags along with embedded text.

Please note that IWrite32 is guided by the transliteration map that you select. If the selected map has defined a sound with lower case letter(s), use the same lower case letter(s) in your text too. Do not use capital letters or a mix of lower and upper case letters (capitals) unless your transliteration map takes care of such text. BharatVani transliteration maps use lowercase letters only. If you do not follow this map faithfully, IWrite32 will pass-through any character(s) not defined in the transliteration map 'as is' and the output might look strange. If you are wish to convert your text for another font or transliteration system, you must switch to a transliteration map for that system.

You can't enhance your text as you type it in Roman script. If you want to enhance your document you should first convert it and then apply the enhancements. IWrite will let you change the font size, color and style (bold, italics). You must save the converted document in Rich Text Format with rtf extension to preserve the formatting. A document saved in this format can be further edited in any commercial word processor or html editor.

We assume that you started learning Hindi because you want to know about India, about her people, history and culture. There is no derth of books about India. Many have been translated or originally written and published in English and other foreign languages. However, you can get some preliminary information by reading our section on Indian History and Culture included on this CD.