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[042] - itrans 5.3 by Avinash Chopde (http://www.freshmeat.net/users/avinash1/) Tuesday, July 24th 2001 04:36
About: itrans is a package for printing texts in Indian languages. It uses English-encoded text for input, and it supports Devanagari, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, and Romanized Sanskrit. Input files can be in TeX, LaTeX, HTML, or PostScript format, and Unicode output is supported.
Changes: Now supports Unicode output for all languages. New web server script interface.
License: BSD License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itrans/