7.0 Can I print song lyrics in any Indian fonts/scripts?


Yes, this can be done. There are a variety of softwares that are available that one can use. The most popular one on RMIM is the ITRANS package.

7.1 What is ITRANS Software?


ITRANS is a software package can produce output in various Indian language scripts/fonts. ITRANS is a project that aims to develop a single tool for handling the printing of various Indian language documents, assuming that the input is in some transliterated form. Currently this ITRANS package can generate Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, or Telugu output from an English transliterated form.

The input file is in a transliterated form, each letter in an Indian language is assigned an english equivalent, and the English alphabet is used to construct what will eventually print out in the Indian language script.

You might want to check the ITRANS Web Interface site for an interactive demo of this ITRANS package.

ITRANS is available from one of the following sites:

7.2 How do I install the ITRANS software?


First you need to get all the related files from the FTP site and then follow the basic instructions that are given in the installation guide for ITRANS. The installation guide is maintained by Anurag Shankar (anurag@chandra.astro.indiana.edu).

The installation guide can be got from http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/isongs/docs/install.unix

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