iast(1) ======= :manmanual: sanskrit-iast NAME ---- iast - a helper for Sanskrit transliteration SYNOPSIS -------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iast [-h] [-v] [-f file] [-r] [-e] [-c] [text arguments] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPTIONS ------- *-h*:: show help and exit *-v*:: show version number and exit *-f*:: input file for processing *-r*:: reverse transliteration (from Latin to Devanagari) *-c*:: transcript into Czech *-e*:: convert symbolic ASCII text to IAST representation DESCRIPTION ----------- iast is a tool for the lossless transliteration of Sanskrit terms written in Devanagari into Latin using the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST). By default, the program takes all input arguments written in Devanagari and transliterates them to IAST version. ENCODING -------- When the flag "-e" is set on, the program converts purely ASCII-encoded strings into the special characters of the IAST alphabet. For example, it converts "sam.skr.tam" to "saṃskṛtam" or "s,a-stram" to "śāstram". The encoding scheme is based on the following principle: characters "-", ".", "," and "~" are considered to be modifiers that modify a letter that stands before the modifier. For example, if the string to be encoded contains "a-", it will be encoded as "ā" and sequence "n~" as "ñ". The only exception from the rule is the letter "n" because it can be encoded both with an over-dot (ṅ) and under-dot (ṇ). For the over-dot variant, the conversion sequence is "n^.". Alternatively, the Czech characters "á", "í", "ú", "š" and "ň" can be used as shortcuts to encode the letters "ā", "ī", "ū", "ś" and "ñ" respectively. COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (c) 2018, 2020 Vlasta Vesely LICENSING AND WARRANTY ---------------------- This software is released under the terms of the GPL license version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. You can freely redistribute and/or modify the software under the terms of the license. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.