On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:

El Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:33:49 +0530 Rustom Mody va escriure:

> Now I am exploring how I could 'zip' the two together. My requirements are like this:
>

> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>

I made a small markup language which lets you write it in this way:

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A song in English and Sanskrit:

Thanks Daniel -- that looks useful at some stage of the processing. I was thinking of concocting something like this myself.
My (current main) use is a bit different however. Its not so much hand-translation as machine-transliteration.

The below elisp code will apply whatever input-method you put into rpm-input-method and put the result into a new buffer. After that pasting the two together into something palatable/presentable is the question. For now Ive used paste -d'|' and then run it through org's table system to produce html

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(defvar rpm-input-method "devanagari-itrans")
(defun rpm-apply-input-method ()
(interactive)
(let* ((inp (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))
    (filename (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)))
    (outname (concat (file-name-sans-extension filename)
                   "-hi"
                   (file-name-extension filename t)))
    (p))
    (switch-to-buffer-other-frame outname)
    (save-excursion
      (save-window-excursion
    (setq p (point))
    (erase-buffer)
    (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
    (set-input-method rpm-input-method t)
    (execute-kbd-macro inp)))
    (goto-char p)
    (other-frame 1)))

(global-set-key [f4] 'rpm-apply-input-method)