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+\input tamilmax
+4/20/90
+
+** Brief notes on the use of the wntml Tamil-in-METAFONT font **
+
+Wntml was developed for a bilingual dictionary project which
+has now been in development for some six years. The project
+was begun on PCs using a romanized transcription with no
+attempts to represent Tamil script interactively. Existing
+facilities for producing Tamil output are based entirely on this
+less than optimal transcription of Tamil.
+
+Someone at liberty to begin anew, could use a much cleaner solution.
+The transcription scheme we are using is illustrated by the following chart.
+To view this chart in a meaningful way, run
+ tamilize readme.doc readme.tex
+then TeX and print the results. (You will need to have
+run METAFONT on wntml first, of course.)
+
+
+~ a aa i ii u uu e ee o oo ai au
+
+ka kaa ki kii ku kuu ke kee ko koo kai kau
+
+nga ngaa ngi ngii ngu nguu nge ngee ngo ngoo ngai ngau
+
+ca caa ci cii cu cuu ce cee co coo cai cau
+
+5a 5aa 5i 5ii 5u 5uu 5e 5ee 5o 5oo 5ai 5au
+
+8a 8aa 8i 8ii 8u 8uu 8e 8ee 8o 8oo 8ai 8au
+
+3a 3aa 3i 3ii 3u 3uu 3e 3ee 3o 3oo 3ai 3au
+
+ta taa ti tii tu tuu te tee to too tai tau
+
+na naa ni nii nu nuu ne nee no noo nai nau
+
+pa paa pi pii pu puu pe pee po poo pai pau
+
+ma maa mi mii mu muu me mee mo moo mai mau
+
+ya yaa yi yii yu yuu ye yee yo yoo yai yau
+
+ra raa ri rii ru ruu re ree ro roo rai rau
+
+la laa li lii lu luu le lee lo loo lai lau
+
+va vaa vi vii vu vuu ve vee vo voo vai vau
+
+7a 7aa 7i 7ii 7u 7uu 7e 7ee 7o 7oo 7ai 7au
+
+9a 9aa 9i 9ii 9u 9uu 9e 9ee 9o 9oo 9ai 9au
+
+6a 6aa 6i 6ii 6u 6uu 6e 6ee 6o 6oo 6ai 6au
+
+2a 2aa 2i 2ii 2u 2uu 2e 2ee 2o 2oo 2ai 2au
+
+~
+
+Tamilize converts the transcribed tamil (using the tilde
+character as a delimiter for strings in Tamil script ---
+text is assumed in Roman until the first tilde; the vertical
+bar character is used to delimit strings which should be
+output as romanized Tamil using the usual dots-under-letters
+and other customary diacritics for Indic) into a series of
+TeX macros, each of which prints a single
+Tamil grapheme. Tamil graphemes generally correspond to
+syllables, so essentially Tamilize is scanning its input
+for syllables and invoking a predetermined macro for
+each syllable. The current version of Tamilmax, in
+which the syllable macros are defined, catcodes Ctrl-A
+as equivalent to backslash, and Tamilize uses Ctrl-A as
+the command character for all the Tamil syllable macros.
+With an editor which can hide control characters, the
+tamilized transliteration is still somewhat readable,
+and is useful for debugging output. Extensive editing of text
+should always take place in the un-tamilized transcription,
+with subsequent tamilizing before running TeX --- otherwise
+errors will almost certainly be introduced in the editing
+process.
+
+
+IF YOUR COPY OF WNTML INCLUDES A TAMDICT.TXT OR TAMDICT.TEX SAMPLE
+FILE, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE SAMPLE IS FROM A WORK IN PROGRESS:
+DO NOT QUOTE THE SAMPLE TEXT.
+
+
+7/10/91 Some TeXs on PCs gag when they see the control-As which tamilize
+introduces; users of such TeXs will prefer tmilize, which is just like
+tamilize but uses '\' instead of '^A'.