Note: This section is applicable to the devanagari font devnac only, the tamil font wntml, and the devanagari font devnag cannot be used for this purpose since they are not PostScript fonts.
As mentioned earlier, the Dumb Input interface is an extremely primitive interface for printing, but will suffice for printing documents containing only devanagari text, and requiring no typesetting features such as centering, right flush text, etc. In addition to generating the devanagari characters, this method preserves the line breaks and spaces in the input text. So, unlike in the TEX version, which programatically decides where to break a line, here you have to include a end-of-line in the exact spot where you desire a new line to start in the output. And, if you need indented lines, you have to add spaces to simulate horizontal skips. Naturally, this approach may require several runs on the printer to get document to look correct.
The previous section titled Input Format applies to this interface, too.
Thus, the user needs to specify the IFM file name, the font command name,
etc before writing text between the indian language markers such as
\char92marathi and \char92endmarathi.
For further examples, see the sample documents provided,
all dumb textual input transliterated files have been given the file extension
.ips.
The postscript prologue for itrans is in the file itrans.pro.
Check the file out, it contains some useful postscript procedures.