Off-line reading
of Sanskrit lessons
Viewers interested in keeping a copy of
the lessons for off-line reference may download the lessons on to their
systems. Off-line reading will require special software to view the text
in Devanagari. Also, the off-line versions of the lessons will not allow
interactive learning. This is not a serious limitation however.
Samskritapriyah offer the lessons in the
following formats
1. HTML format
This format is
very convenient for off-line viewing using a standard web browser such
as Netscape 4.5 or Internet Explorer 4.X or higher. Viewing the lessons
in HTML requires that the appropriate
fonts for Devanagari and Roman diacritics be installed in the systems.
The fonts have been made available at this site and so this should not
pose a problem. However, installing fonts on systems may not be a smooth
affair and so viewers are requested to familiarize themselves with the
fonts installation process. Each lesson is available as one file with all
the subsections put together.
2. .LLF format
This format is the native
file format used by all the applications developed as part of the IITM
Software project. The Multilingual editor or viewer may be used to view
the lessons on Win95 and UNIX systems. As of now, MacIntosh users will
have use the html or the pdf formats. The Multilingual editor or viewer
will have to be installed on the systems. Please read through the pages
on downloading and installing the IITM
Editor.
3. PDF format
This format is sufficiently
universal and the Acrobat Reader on a system will be adequate to view the
lessons off-line. There are a few shortcomings with this format of
the lessons with respect to the presentation. The lessons are presented
in one single file for each lesson and so the convenience of the presentation
as in these pages will be lost.
Receiving Lessons via
email:
Samskritapriyah will be pleased to provide
these lessons via email in the html format. Kindly send in a request to
rkk@acharya.iitm.ac.in expressing your desire to receive the lessons by
email. The lessons will be sent as attachments and will require the multilingual
editor for viewing the text.