Converting Text

On startup, Itranslator places the text cursor in the ITRANS window. Type ITRANS-encoded text in the ITRANS window. After completing, press the <Convert> button or use the shortcut <F2>.

The lower panel has three tabs, 'Devanagari', 'Transliteration' and 'Combined'. By default the Devanagari tab is active, so the text you first see is Devanagari text. Press the 'Transliteration' tab to have the text converted into Transliteration or the 'Combined' tab to get combined Devanagari and Transliteration output.

Alternatively, you can enable 'Auto-Convert' by selecting 'Auto-Convert' in the ITRANS window. Now the ITRANS text gets converted simultaneously, while you type. This is useful if you want to see the result immediately.

Note:

The disadvantage of using the 'Auto-Convert' feature is, that after every character typed in the ITRANS panel, Itranslator has to re-convert the entire text. This is no problem as long as the text is short, but when typing long texts, this feature should be disabled.

Converting Files

Select Open from the File Menu to open ITRANS files (.itx, .txt ...). Select either 'Devanagari', 'Transliteration' or 'Combined' tab and press <Convert>.

If you wish to convert many files in one go, use the Batch Conversion facility from the Tools Menu.

Note regarding Combined Conversion:

English text is not repeated in transliterated text as far as complete unmixed English lines are concerned. However, English words mixed with Devanagari words are repeated in the transliterated text.

As a majority of Sanskrit texts consists of verses, it is desirable to get a verse-by-verse conversion, i.e. after each verse in Devanagari follows the transliterated verse. To achieve this verse-by-verse display, you have to insert a blank line after each verse in the ITX file.

Stopping Conversion

To stop the conversion process you may press the <Stop> button at any time.

Note:

Though Itranslator does not limit the size of text files that can be converted, the resulting output files may use a lot of memory and slow down your system. In case of files larger than 1 MB it is suggested to use Batch Conversion, which is not only much faster, but also does not use that much memory.

As a practical limit - depending on your system's speed and amount of memory - a file size of 100 KB to 500 KB is comfortably converted. Above 500 KB size, it is better - and faster - to use Batch Conversion.