Hi Saramati,

S> actually I am thinking of something that would be working at a higher
S> level----a set of nested macros, for example. If I do come across
S> something, I report back here.

There's a Norman -> Unicode conversion macro in the macros package
http://dhamma.ru/paali/macros.zip . However some symbols need manual
work.

By the way, you can get Gair & Karunatillake wordlists from the
Russian translation at http://dhamma.ru/paali/new_pali.zip

Best regards,
Dimitry