Handbook related projects

Handbook related projects

Introduction

The Indic-Computing Handbook is a developers handbook that contains technical information about the issues involved in Indian language processing.

Developing the Handbook requires two major kinds of skill sets:

• Domain expertise, e.g., linguistic information for each of the languages being documented.
• Software development skills for building infrastructure capable of processing indian language text.

One of the requirements for the Handbook is that it be capable of documenting languages that do not have ``standard'' character encodings or font encodings (e.g. indian language scripts not covered by Unicode). The other requirement for the Handbook is that it should be buildable and usable on platforms that lack builtin support for the languages being described.

The major issues involved in developing this documentation system have been covered in the Indic-Computing Documentation Infrastructure article.

Major subprojects in this area are:

• Contributing to the Handbook
• DocBook/SGML to PDF transformation with Indic script support.
• Documentation Toolchain Packaging
• DSSSL extensions to support transliterated Indic input
• Indexing the Handbook

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