Well, I had downloaded the etext of the Vedanta-Sutras with a commentary by Ramanujam from the PG site. Its in English, so I dont have to struggle with my pitifull knowledge of Sanskrit. Moreover, what little I learnt was Panini's rules based one, not the Sanskrit used in the Vedas. So unfortunately I dont have any other option of learning from the Vedas or the numerous Vedanta literatures unless I am well versed in Sanskrit (both Vedic & Panini) unless it is translated to English.
The etexts on PG are mostly scanned documents converted to text with OCR s/w. They are machine readable and rendered human readable too, but not pleasurable to read on your computer monitor. Hence, I was looking for an easy way by which I would be able to convert them to HTML so that I could read them on my browser. One way for me was to convert them into xml files by adding some custom xml tags, and then use CSS to render them on the browser. I did not use a DTD, as it was my own personal format of XML. But this was cumbersome and time taking as I was tagging the texts manually or using find/replace with regular expressions on TextPad. This was in the windoze env. After I got to know about the txt2tags from Mani's post, I installed it on my Ubuntu and tried it out ... read the man pages and came to know that you can start it in GUI mode if you invoke it as "txt2tags --gui" ... then you choose the file you want to convert, choose the target file type and choose a few other options, and click on Convert. And presto! There you are, with a new HTML file ... and let me tell you, it did not take any human noticable time at all!!! It almost seemed that I had clicked on the convert button and then the output was there. If you want the txt and html files, I can share them with you. Pls let me know. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:38:54 +0530, peekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these are mukto for sure > > tell us about them please ? > > great work even if its for PG .. > > ..pi I > > From: "Prem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <snipped> > > > > 1. convert the .txt files into .tex via "txt2tags" (GUI available) > > ^^^ > > Just convert them into .html directly ... install txt2tags, invoke it > > with the param --gui ... then choose your output type as HTML ... and > > you are done!! > > I did it for "The Vedanta-Sutras" from PG ... file was 8sutr10.txt ... > > converted it to HTML ... in just one single step! > > <snipped> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- - Prem ---------------------------------------------------- Prem Kumar Aparanji M: 00919830631687 [Kolkata, WB, INDIA] http://prem.shaliniprem.com http://www.shaliniprem.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
