LaTeX sanskrit package under new maintainership

[Sumukh Prasad]

Hi all,

Maintainership of the "sanskrit" package for LaTeX (located at ctan.org/pkg/sanskrit), originally developed by Charles Wikner in 1996 and maintained by Václav Haisman until recently, has been passed on to me.

This package is probably familiar to many of you, it provides a Velthuis preprocessor that  provides transliteration from Velthuis to both Devanagari and Roman scripts, and still works remarkably well for high-quality typesetting. Though aging, I still feel it holds a lot of value for transliterated workflows and academic use.

I shall start  by addressing some long-standing issues with line-breaking and macro conflicts, though in the long term I should like to explore unicode support, amongst other things.

Feedback, suggestions, or feature requests are super welcome — please feel free to let me know. Although I must point out that I am somewhat busy and will not be able to devote the entirety of my time to this project.

Some links:

Package on CTAN: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/sanskrit

New remote repository: https://github.com/sumukhprasad/package-sanskrit
Old remote repository: https://github.com/wilx/sanskrit



Regards,

Sumukh Prasad,

https://sumukhprasad.github.io