Common errors and tips for the users of web interface.

Last updated : May 29, 2000

Write any of your Engilsh text enclosed in ## English##.

If you get a dvips error there is a syntax problem
arising due to some non-supported characters.

Do not use single # as it will lead to a DVIPS error and will not give
any useful output/display.

In Indian script notation, ITRANS does not allow following upper case letters
B C F G O P Q S V W X Y Z
so do not use them.

English(Roman) and Indian script can be alternated
using ## toggle.  e.g. ##My mother tongue is ##sa.nskR^ita\.
 ##Happy Birthday ##.  If you want space after English
text add one before ending ##, e.g. namaste ##Hello ## namaste.
The space after ## is not used.

oo and ee  should be substituted by U or uu and I or ii.

Please pay attention ta following letters which will o diirgha svara-s e.g. aa, ii, uu, and
retroflex/Linguals/muurdhanya letters
Ta, Tha, Da, Dha, Na.

Use \- to get a hyphen (dash -).

Just a period gives a vertical line | mainly for Sanskrit and Hindi.

Use \. to force a period.

In lines' mode there is no need to force line break using \\.

Use underscore _ o tor {} to join two vowels or separate two consonents,
e.g. bhaa_ii, bhaa{}ii, sad{}bhaava instead of sadbhaava.

Do not use # $ @ % by themselves as they are not supported in Indian scripts.
In English text (using ## text ##), add a \ before them, e.g. \#, \$, \@, \%

Use of just % sign means the rest of the text is treated as a comment.

If Adobe Acrobat reader gives internal error for viewing,
please download the file on to your hard drive and
view it separately.  See tip available at Adobe site
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2b8e.htm

File viewing tips:
GIF image can be viewed by any web browser.
Adobe Acrobat Reader, viewer for PDF files is avaialble at
     http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
The Ghostview and Ghostscript combination (yes, need both
depending on your operating system)  for postscript
file viewing are available at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html


Please let us know your suggestion in improving this short list.

An elaborate guidance is given in a file
http:/sanskrit.gde.to/processing_tools/commonerrors.txt

You may also want to review Itrans encoding scheme table at
http://sanskrit.gde.to/processing_tools/itrans_short.txt

OR visit Avinash Chopde's main Itrans site at
http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/