July 24, 2020

Why would a graphic designer (me) in his right mind produce a facsimile (replica) edition of the original German Śrī Īśopaniṣad from the scratch? All that in addition to a polished version for print and electronic delivery that he has already produced? And reproducing all perceived imperfections and small mistakes of that very first edition – including typography that does not follow the German language rules? And why would he create his own font family based on the original typeface of...

September 13, 2019

Typing characters with diacritical marks the easy way. I designed a keyboard layout for exactly this purpose. This is for anyone who needs or wants to write transliteration of Devanāgarī (for Sanskrit) and other Indic scripts reguarly. (Or likes to use diacritics even in online communication) You will need a computer running Microsoft Windows with a keyboard of any English language flavour. If you like to give it it try, the download link is below. The package is rolled into a so-called...

January 06, 2019

Note: As the title of this post implies I wrote this for my not so computer-savvy godsisters and godbrothers, devotee friends, and whoever else might be interested. By no means do I want to insult anyone’s intelligence. However, after communicating with devotees on the subject I realised that a little guidance would be in order. Many devotees still seem to be struggling with a whole existing load of inconsistently encoded documents – legacy Vedabase encoding – side-by-side with the...