Initial capital

[sohum at ms.uky.edu]

On  Fri, 12 Apr 1996 Mikael Aktor <aktor at coco.ihi.ku.dk> wrote:

||It's irritating that initial capitals in mames look ambiguous when used
||together with the Kyoto-Harvard convention. Like for instance: GaGgA,
||JJAnezvara, etc. But it is also problematic to skip them in for instance
||kRSNa, when this is a name and not only a color. Could we agree upon a
||common marker put before initial capital, for instance ":" ? The above
||examples would then be: :GaGgA, :JJAnezvara, and :KRSNa. The choice has to
||bee a sign which is not taken as a part of the word by various search
||programs, and which can not be mistaken for other signs that one may want to
||use before a word, for instance quotation marks. Other suggestions? Or is
||ASCII-Sanskrit already too weird for further complications?


I agree completely. I find that the Itrans convention of enclosing
words in a different script between ## ## is good and very convenient. 
So if the major message is in English, we should write Krishna or
##kRSNa## to use Aktor's example.

If people are using a certain convention, be it Kyoto-Harvard, or Velthuis
or Itrans, they might also consider a footnote (in their signature) to
that effect and we might be able to come up with scripts to automatically 
reformat/print in any desired medium.
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