Installation

The installation of Devakey is an automatic process, just follow the messages on the screen. Please be shure to end all other programs before installing Devakey.

In case of any problems during installation, please send me an email with a detailed description of what happened ( email: devakey@netlane.de). In this way I can help you and similar difficulties can be avoided for others.

Starting Devakey

After installation you will find the program Devakey in the Windows-Startmenu under
START/PROGRAM FILES/SANSKRIT/DEVAKEY.

When you start Devakey, you first get a screen, where you have the possibility to register Devakey. With the unregistered Version you have the complete functionality except that you can´t save files.

By clicking on the ‘register’ button, you get a window where you can see your serialnumber of Devakey.

Please write down this number and send it to me by email to ‘devakey@netlane.de’.

You will get a registrationkey in return after paying a registration fee for Devakey (this may vary due to your country and status – please inquire!)

If you don´t enter a registrationkey yet, you still can use all aspects of Devakey, but you can save a file. Like this you can test everything and see how simple it is to use Devakey.

On first view, Devakey is not much different from ‘Wordpad’ or ‘Write’. You will find the program easy to use right from the beginning. Yet Devakey has some very powerful additional functions for professional and easy editing of Sanskrit-texts.

First Steps

Within the program you have three different modes of editing, which you can select through the Buttons in the menubar or under ‘Convert’:

1.) devnagrf Click on the Devanàgari -button:

In this mode you can write directly in Devanàgari. You even don´t have to rembember any keystrokes, as they follow a very simple inputscheme. And all ligatures are created automatically.

Please refer to the chapter "Devanàgari".

2.) Transliteration Click on the Transliteration-button:

In order to write a text in Transliteration, please first select the transliteration mode by clicking on the transliteration-icon.

In this mode you write in romanized Sanskrit. More information on this in the chapter ‘Transliteration’ .

3.) Userdefined Click on the Usermode-button:

In this mode you either write text that isn´t Sanskrit or you use it for importing or exporting texts from or to other systems of transliteration. Please refer to the chapter about ‘Userdefined Mode’ .