Mac-Devanagari

Wed Dec 26 18:41:56 UTC 2007

A few more specifics on Mac diacritics and Devanagari:

I find the EasyUnicode keyboard layout more convenient than the "US-
extended" layout.  Easy Unicode can be downloaded by the following link:

http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/downloads/EasyUnicode4.zip?PHPSESSID=b00d228981ebaeba23070d313b87675f

Follow the readme instructions to put the layout files in your keyboard
folder, then you can go to Preferences --> International --> Input Menu
and select the EasyUnicode check box from the list (if it isn't there you
might need to restart the computer).  This is also a good time to make
sure the check boxes for Keyboard Viewer and Character Palette are
checked.  This lets you see and change the keyboard of choice on the top
right of your desktop.  You can also set a keyboard shortcut in this Input
Menu window.
Once the EasyUnicode keyboard is checked, you simply switch to it (by
clicking the flag or using a keyboard shortcut), then open any application
(such as TextEdit) and begin typing. By holding down the option/alt key
and pushing "a" you get a long a.  The rest are intuitive but are also
listed in the readme file.

The Devanagari keyboard (I prefer "DevanagariQwerty") can also be
activated in the previously used input menu.  You can change to it through
the flag at the top right as before, and type in any application. To form
a conjunct simply type the first consonant, followed by an "f" then the
next consonant.  The correct conjunct will automatically by generated. 
Simplicity itself.

Good Luck,

Michael Slouber
UC Berkeley

> You can always change fonts and keyboard outlay (flag icon on upper
> right) as-you-write -- this is application-independent, and should
> work with both programs. If you do not have the Devanagari and
> Devanagari QWERTY flags, they need to be installed from your system
> disk or be implemented if already on your hard disk. Check in System
> Preferences --> International to see if you already have what you need
> there!
> Cheers and Happy Boxing Day,
> Alex
>
> On 26/12/2007, at 9:16 AM, James Hartzell wrote:
>
> Seasons Greetings
>
> Many thanks to all who posted useful info about Mac Devanagari.
> Apologies for being so ignorant, but might someone send instructions
> on how to use both diacritics and devanagari in Nisus Writer Pro and
> NeoOffice?
>
> James Hartzell
>
> On 15 Dec 2007, at 6:27 PM, George Hart wrote:
>
>> The OS X version of Nisus Writer Pro is an extremely good word
>> processor and works well with unicode (both Devanagari and Tamil are
>> built-in to Leopard and Tiger).  I think the new Word for Mac coming
>> out in January may not handle unicode properly -- we'll see.  Nisus
>> reads and writes Word files and uses rtf as its default format.
>> TextEdit (which is free and also comes with the OS) also works well
>> with unicode.  But of course TextEdit won't do footnotes and the
>> like.  George Hart
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2007, at 4:14 AM, Heike Moser wrote:
>>
>>> Dear James Hartzell,
>>>
>>> The Mac Unicode-Devanagari works very well in NeoOffice:
>>> http://www.neooffice.org/ - that the combiantion characters are not
>>> working
>>> in Word seems to be one of many Microsoft problems ...
>>>
>>> Best regards from Tübingen,
>>> Heike Moser
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 15.12.2007 12:57 Uhr schrieb "James Hartzell" unter
>>> <hartzell at SENTECHSA.COM>:
>>>
>>>> I have a similar question as Prof. Dehejia for Mac.  With the help
>>>> of
>>>> Iyanaga Nobumi in Japan i've managed to get his Asian Extended Fonts
>>>> input method working nicely for diacritics for MS-Word for Mac (OSX
>>>> 10.4), but cannot get decent Devanagari fonts to type with (those
>>>> that come with Mac OSC Tiger don't really work, since one cannot
>>>> type
>>>> in combination characters), and i haven't found any others that work
>>>> on Macs.  I'll have OSX Leopard working shortly and will report on
>>>> whether that allows Devanagari input in Word.
>>>>
>>>> James Hartzell
>>>> Durban, South Africa
>>>>
>>>> On 15 Dec 2007, at 7:09 AM, Nivedita Rout wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Prof. dehejia,
>>>>> The software 'Itranslator' works very well for Sanskrit language in
>>>>> devanagari and transliteration. Another programme called 'MikeTex'
>>>>> which is most used by western scholars are one of the advance
>>>>> programmes for convertion of Devanagari and roman transliteration.
>>>>> Hope it will help.
>>>>>
>>>>> With best regards
>>>>> Nivedita,
>>>>> EFEO, Pondicherry.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>>> From: Harsha Dehejia <harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM>
>>>>> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 15 December, 2007 5:27:22 AM
>>>>> Subject: Sanskrit Software
>>>>>
>>>>> Friends:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had an inquiry from a Vedic scholar in California and he
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> "I would like to create a professional software package, an 'add-
>>>>> on' that operates directly within Microsoft Office. Such software
>>>>> would give users a common platform for efficiently typing Sanskrit
>>>>> from a Romanized (English) keyboard directly into MSWord. Users
>>>>> would be able to do so in Devanagari or transliteration, or by
>>>>> toggling from one to the other. My hope is to distribute such a
>>>>> package free of cost over the internet and, in doing so, create a
>>>>> common platform for all who create full or part-Sanskrit documents,
>>>>> publish them, or simply use them. Academic or student, mystic or
>>>>> pragmatist, Westerner or Indian, if someone has MSWord, they'll be
>>>>> able to use what I envision. "
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if this exists?  If not what shall I tell him. He
>>>>> seems sincere.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards and Season's Greetings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Harsha
>>>>>
>>>>> Harsha V. Dehejia
>>>>> Professor of Indian Studies, Carleton University
>>>>> Ottawa, ON. Canada.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://
>>>>> help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/
>
> Alex (Alessandro) Passi,
> Dipartimento Studi Linguistici
> e Orientali
> Università di Bologna,
> Via Zamboni 33
> Bologna, 40126, Italy.
>
> a.passi at alma.unibo.it
> alexpassi at gmail.com
> +39-051-209.8472
> cellphone +39-338.269.4933
> fax +39-051-209.8443.
>
>
>
> Alex (Alessandro) Passi,
> Dipartimento Studi Linguistici
> e Orientali
> Università di Bologna,
> Via Zamboni 33
> Bologna, 40126, Italy.
>
> a.passi at alma.unibo.it
> alexpassi at gmail.com
> +39-051-209.8472
> cellphone +39-338.269.4933
> fax +39-051-209.8443.
>