PIE-Office: A terminal based script converter for ancient (Proto-)Indo-European languages.

This application is a tentative to convert my editor-based keybinding plugins for typing ancient Indo-European languages pievim and pie-macs to a standalone application. I am not much of a GUI person, so this comes as a terminal based converter, but it will hopefully be more useful for those not using vim or emacs. Generally, this project will lag behind the pievim, since it is being done in a rather hobbist fashion.

So far, the mappings cover:

• Proto-Indo-European (pieoffice convert pie <text>)
• Indic:
  • Vedic / Sanskrit:
    • Devanagari (pieoffice vedic convert <text> or pieoffice sanskrit convert <text>)
    • ISO (pieoffice vedic convert <text> -t iso or pieoffice sanskrit convert <text> -t iso)
    • IAST (pieoffice vedic convert <text> -t iast or pieoffice sanskrit convert <text> -t iast)
• Iranic:
  • Avestan:
    • Script (pieoffice avestan convert <text>)
    • Transliterated as in Hoffman (pieoffice convert avestan <text> -t translit)
  • Old Persian Cuneiform (pieoffice convert oldpersian <text>)
• Celtic:
  • Ogham Script (pieoffice convert ogham <text>)
• Italic:
  • Oscan Script (pieoffice convert oscan <text>)
• Germanic:
  • Gothic Script (pieoffice convert gothic <text>)
• Armenian:
  • Script (pieoffice convert armenian <text> or pieoffice convert armenian <text> -t armenian)
  • Script, Maiscules only (pieoffice convert armenian <text> -t maiscules)
  • Romanized in ISO (pieoffice convert armenian <text> -t iso)
  • Romanized in Classical (pieoffice convert armenian <text> -t maiscules)
• Greek:
  • Polytonic Greek (pieoffice convert greek <text>)
  • Mycenaean Linear B Script (pieoffice convert linearb <text>)
  • Cypriot Syllabary (pieoffice convert cypriot <text>)
• Anatolian:
  • Hieroglyphic Luwian (pieoffice convert luwian <text>)
  • Lydian (pieoffice convert lydian <text>)
  • Lycian (pieoffice convert lycian <text>)
  • Carian (pieoffice convert carian <text>)

Installation

The easiest way so far is, if you have pip, to run:

pip install --user pieoffice

And to upgrade:

pip install --upgrade pieoffice

Usage

To figure out what are the languages available:

pieoffice list

To check the rules for a given language:

pieoffice rules <language>

To convert:

pieoffice convert <language> <text>

TODO

JSON

It could be better having the dictionary structures converted to json, since it would allow some fancier techniques, maybe?

Contribute

This is a hobbist project, so please let me know if you would employ a different algorithm or make a pull request. Any tinkering with the code is most welcome.