Important: to be able to read this document properly you should first install the Sangayana font in the Fonts folder in Windows
(normally found at C:\Windows\Fonts)

This document has 3 sections:

1: Sangayana Font

The Sangayana font is based on Dr. J. D. Smith's Times_CSX+, the copyright for which remains with URW++ Design and Development Incorporated, Poppenbuetteler Bogen 29A, D-22399 Hamburg, Germany. The new font replaces the characters that are used in CSX+ for New Indo-Aryan, with extra characters that are needed for some of the Pràkrits, and with characters concerned with the prosody of the Indo-Aryan languages.

The font is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which is included in this archive in the file COPYING. The chief provisions of the GPL are that software licensed under it may be freely redistributed provided the author's copyright is properly acknowledged. As permitted under Section 2 of the GPL, I have modified the font, but the modified font, like the originals, are distributed under the GPL. The modified fonts were originally created in June, 2002, and subsequently modified in Sept. 2003.

As of February 2004, two new versions of the font are being made available. They are Sangayana Palatino (based on CSX+_Palatino); and Sangayana Courier (based on CSX+_Courier). All the copyright provisions outlined above also apply to these fonts. All 3 of these fonts are in self-extracting zip files contained in this archive.

The font should be sufficient to display all the diacritic characters that are employed in Vedic, Sanskrit, Pàëi, Sinhala, and maybe other Pràkrits; and also to give a wide range of characters that are needed for describing the prosody.

For those familiar with CSX+, here is a synopsis of the extra characters found in Saïgàyana:

In the following table column 1 shows the character number; column 2 Times_CSX+ (note that you must have this font installed in order to see the comparison); & column 3 Sangayana (the new characters discussed above are shown in red):

2: Diacritics.dot

A document template is provided with this font that has shortcuts written into it so that the characters in the new font can be easily accessed. Of course, it is always possible to write in more as the need arises: on the Menu bar, go Insert\Symbol... and when the dialogue opens select the character you want to tie in, and go to Shortcut Keys... Make sure that the modifications are being saved in Diacritics.dot (and not Normal.dot, for instance).

Diacritics.dot can be placed in the templates section on your computer, which is normally found at the following address: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates. It will then be available when you open the File\New... dialogue in Winword.

If you find the template useful, you can paste it in to STARTUP, normally found at the following address: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\STARTUP, and it will be available in each new document you open.

Here is a table giving the shortcuts that have been written in (note that certain shortcuts available in the standard Normal.dot will be overwritten by installing this template):

3: Sangayana Insertion Programme

This programme is designed to make the insertion of the characters in the Sangayana font a little bit easier than it is using the Word Symbol facility, which simply shows all the characters in their numerical order. Here all the characters are arranged on two pages, the first page having all the normal alphabetic characters in (more or less the Indian) alphabetic order; and the second page has numbers and signs of one sort or another.

All the characters available in the Sangayana font are listed on these two pages (note that for some reason the character "­" doesn't display properly on the form and appears as "nÌ" instead). To enter one of the characters into a document simply click on the character concerned.

Go: Tools/Macro/Visual Basic Editor
On the Menu board Go: File/Import File...
and import the frmInsert

Paste the following macro into New Macros (Tools/Macro/Macros... and click on Edit)

Run the macro to access the Insert Sangayana Character Programme.