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Tested using IE6 and IE7 (Web browsers other than Internet Explorer are not recommended.)
To see some examples of how this web page works:
1. Click the and then the buttons above. Observe how the Sanskrit diacritic characters have changed.
2. If you have a Windows version of the VedaBase installed on your computer, then click and then . Enter “ScaGoudy” as the font name. Then you should be able to again see the diacritics displayed correctly.
3. Click .
4. If you changed the font name in step #2 above, then again click and then , this time entering “Tahoma” as the font name. (For web browsers other than Internet Explorer, the button does not exist, so manually highlight all of the text instead.)
5. Click to see what the corresponding HTML looks like.
6. Click , click , and then copy/paste a portion of a web page into the text box above. Then click to see what the HTML looks like.
To prepare text from the VedaBase (Windows version) for email (bold and italics will be lost):
1. Select (highlight) the VedaBase text.
2. Right click on the text, and select “Copy.”
3. Paste the text into the text box above.
4. If you don’t want to include the diacritics in the email message, then click , otherwise, click .
5. Click . (For web browsers other than Internet Explorer, the button does not exist, so manually highlight all of the text instead.)
6. Click . (optional)
7. Enter “Tahoma” as the font name. (optional)
8. Click . (For web browsers other than Internet Explorer, the button does not exist, so use “<Ctrl>C” instead.)
9. If prompted, click the “Yes” button.
10. Paste the text into your email message.
To prepare text from the VedaBase (Windows version) for email, preserving the bold and italics:
1. Select (highlight) the VedaBase text.
2. Click “File / Export….”
3. Click the “Up One Level” button until you are at the Desktop.
4. Make sure that “Selected Records” is selected for the “Export range.”
5. Select “Rich Text Format (*.RTF)” for “Save as type.”
6. Enter “t” for the file name.
7. Click the “Export” button.
8. Find the “t.RTF” file on your desktop, and load it into Microsoft Word. (Wordpad will not work.)
9. Copy / paste the text from Word into the text box above.
10. If you don’t want to include the diacritics in the email message, then click , otherwise, click .
11. Click . (For web browsers other than Internet Explorer, the button does not exist, so manually highlight all of the text instead.)
12. Click .
13. Enter “Tahoma” as the font name.
14. Click .
15. Click . (For web browsers other than Internet Explorer, the button does not exist, so use “<Ctrl>C” instead.)
16. Set your email message text box to “Rich formatting.”
17. Paste the text into your email message.
Clicking causes an HTML “keywords meta” command to be created. All non-bold text, all numbers, and all special characters are deleted. It also separates the bold words/phrases with commas, converts them to non-bold, and puts the result within the meta command. To get the original text back, click .
The text box above is a “rich text” text box, which means that the following are among Internet Explorer’s keyboard “shortcuts” which may be used:
1. “Enter” - New paragraph.
2. “<Shift>Enter” - New line.
3. “<Ctrl>A” - Select all of the text.
4. “<Ctrl>B” - Toggle selected text between bold and nonbold.
5. “<Ctrl>C” - Copy selected text to the clipboard.
6. “<Ctrl>I” - Toggle selected text between italic and nonitalic.
7. “<Ctrl>K” - Make selected text into a link.
8. “<Ctrl>U” - Toggle selected text between underlined and not underlined.
9. “<Ctrl>V” - Replace selected text with the clipboard contents.
10. “<Ctrl>X” - Cut selected text after copying it to the clipboard.
NOTE: Unicode characters may be entered in three different formats. For example, the Greek letter Delta may be entered as “Δ,” as “[Delta],” or as “[#916].” In all three cases, it is translated into HTML as “Δ” and will be displayed on the web page as “Δ.” (See “Table of HTML Special Character Designations” - http://pratyatosa.com/HTMLSpecialCharacterTable.htm) Other special codes are as follows: [copy] = ©, [reg] = ®, [trade] = ™, [sup1] = ¹, [sup2] = ², [sup3] = ³, [dagger] = †, [Dagger] = ‡, … (3 periods) = … (…), and "…" = “….”
NOTE: This web page was created using Notepad. Except for the background image file and the keyboard command JavaScript file, it is completely self contained, and the absence of these two files will not cause any problems. Please feel free to save it to your hard drive using “File/Save as….” Double-click on the newly created “Pratyatosa - Utility - Convert Rich Text to HTML and Vice Versa” icon (“RichText2HTML” for Firefox), and make it one of your “Favorites.” It will work perfectly even when you are no longer connected to the Internet, or, heaven forbid, when this web page is no longer available!
Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
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