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.TH "iast" "1" "16 October 2020" "sanskrit-iast" "Sanskrit Transliteration"
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.SH NAME
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.B iast
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- a helper for Sanskrit transliteration
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.SY iast
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.OP -h
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.OP -v
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.RB [ -f
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.IR FILE ]...\&
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.RB [ -r " |"
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.BR -c " |"
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.BR -e ]
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.RI [ "TEXT ARGUMENTS" ]...
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.YS
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBiast\fR is a tool for the lossless transliteration of Sanskrit terms written
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in Devanagari into Latin using the IAST scheme (International Alphabet of
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Sanskrit Transliteration).
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The program allows to perform transliteration either on all non-option
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arguments or on whole files specified by the \fB-f\fR option. By default, it
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performs transliteration from Devanagari to a corresponding romanised version,
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but using the \fB-r\fR switch, reverse transliteration can be performed, converting
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romanised texts back into Devanagari.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.B \-f
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.I FILE
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.RS 4
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Input file for processing.
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.RE
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.B \-r
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.RS 4
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Use reverse transliteration (from Latin to Devanagari).
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.RE
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.B \-c
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.RS 4
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Transcript a Devanagari text into Czech.
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.RE
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.B \-e
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.RS 4
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Convert Velthuis scheme text to IAST representation
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.RE
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.B \-h
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.RS 4
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Show usage information and exit.
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.RE
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.B \-v
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.RS 4
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Show version number and exit.
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.RE
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.SH ENCODING
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When the flag \fB-e\fR is set on, the program converts strings encoded using
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the Velthuis scheme (purely ASCII-encoded strings) into the special characters
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of the IAST alphabet. For example, it can convert ‘sa.msk.rtam’ to ‘saṃskṛtam’
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or ‘"saastram’ to ‘śāstram’.
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The encoding scheme is based on the following principle: the characters ‘.’,
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‘"’ and ‘~’ are considered to be modifiers that modify the letter that stands
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after the modifier. For example, if the string to be encoded contains ‘.t’,
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it will be encoded as ‘ṭ’, the sequence ‘~n’ as ‘ñ’ and so on. Long vowels are
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marked by doubled letter corresponding to the vowel; thus ‘aa’ is encoded to
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‘ā’, ‘.rr’ to ‘ṝ’ and so on.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Copyright (c) 2018, 2020 Vlasta Vesely <vlastavesely@protonmail.ch>
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.SH REPORTING BUGS
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If you encounter a bug, you should make sure that you are using the latest
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version of the software. If you do and the bug is still present, you can
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report it using either the issues tracker on GitLab or GitHub.
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.RS 4
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GitLab: <https://gitlab.com/vlastavesely/sanskrit-iast/issues>
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.br
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GitHub: <https://github.com/vlastavesely/sanskrit-iast/issues>
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.RE
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.SH LICENSE AND WARRANTY
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the
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Free Software Foundation.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
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FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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More information on the encoding schemes can be found on Wikipedia:
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.RS 4
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IAST scheme: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAST>
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.br
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Velthuis scheme: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velthuis>
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.RE
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