I haven’t put in a lot of any time on this for a little while now - I’ve been working, dealing with the minutiae of having a place to live and food to eat, and, when it comes to how I use my other time, I’ve been working on two other projects (new instances of a blog and a wiki), but those are, I think, starting to stabilize, meaning that if my skills haven’t totally atrophied, and if I can find the materials, and I can get going on this again. It’s not my only project waiting - far from it—but I’ve been getting envious of my more linguistically-oriented friend Andrew getting his translation on

My workflow is going to be changing somewhat, though. The biggest transition is going to be not working with the wonderful but sadly Windows-only Itranslator. Now, I don’t anticipate any serious problems in producing देवनागरी, given OSX’s fantastic language support (simple key combination to switch scripts, relatively intuitive keyboard shouldn’t take long to get fast with), but there’s no built-in romanized Sanskrit keyboard (not shocking, since it’s not a living language), so, while I may get around to rolling my own (it doesn’t sound as hard as some things, based on what I’ve looked at), it’ll probably be just देव and plain English to start with. (Yes, this will probably hurt me more than it does you, as I’m used to thinking in Roman (lazy), and I generally have to squint pretty hard to read देव on a screen.)

Note that since I have no idea what script नागार्जुन would have written in, there’s really no nerd points associated with choosing देवनागरी; but it’ll represent the sounds, which is after all what it’s for.

I’m also going to need to move out of the badly cobbled-together STX markup I was using before to new, badly cobbled-together textile. (Hopefully I’m just kidding—textile is much more powerful and less brittle than STX; worse comes to worst, I’ll just have to go all XML with it.)