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UBC INDIC
ASHOK AKLUJKAR DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, B. C., CANADA
Background and acknowledgements:
1.1 The credit for initiating and making most of the efforts for computer -printing of Nāgari at the University of British Columbia goes to Dr. Kenneth E. Bryant, my colleague in the Department of Asian Studies. In 1979, when he embarked upon the difficult project of preparing a critical edition of the Sūr-sāgar (a medieval Hindi collection of devotional poems), he thought of
the possibility of harnessing the services of a computer for the project.
Almost immediately thereafter, he was thinking in terms of using a computer not only for processing the data preserved in the various manuscripts of the Sūr-sāgar but also for getting an output in the Nāgari script, so that data processing as well as eventual publication of the critical edition would be facilitated. He spent many long months devising the Nāgari fonts he needed for his work. As his system was reaching completion, UBC purchased the powerful Xerox 9700 laser printer to go with its computer network. Therefore, he again expended much effort and
adapted his system to the new immensely superior technology. In
determining individual N2 jari font shapes he was assisted by Dr. Vidyut
Aklujkar.
| SR No. | 269719 |
| Book Title | UBC indic |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publisher | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 26 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Article |
| File Size | 2 MB |