[INDOLOGY] Devanagari keyboard

[Tim Bellefleur]

I'm inclined to agree, Dominik, even though I've become well-used to the
"Devanagari-QWERTY" keyboard and don't really notice its inefficiencies. In
any case, it was an oasis of relative sense in the otherwise awfully mired
world of Devanagari input several years ago, where Windows input methods
were particularly confounding. Google's Input Tools (which Charles DiSimone
posted to this thread) have a Sanskrit component which works in a manner
very much like you describe your Ubuntu experience. It seems quite nice.
They also come in an offline-Windows version. I'm curious if there is
something similarly accessible for us Mac users.

-Tim


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm slightly appalled by what I'm hearing about typing "f" in between
> every conjuncted letter.  That must make typing a terrible pain!
>
> All our modern operating systems have built-in stuff for making conjuncts
> automatically by just typing the letters one after another (as in
> romanization).* <http://behdad.org/text/>  I don't understand why MS Win
> and OS/X users are doing this other, laborious thing.  Am I missing
> something obvious?
>
> When I type Devanagari, I type kRSNa and get कृष्ण, kArtsnyam for
> कार्त्स्न्यम् . It's the same whatever program I'm using,  because the
> keyboard/language stuff is handled by the operating system, not each
> individual program.  As far as I know, anyhow.  It's handled by software on
> my system, Ubuntu Linux, called Ibus and m17n (which comes with Devanagari
> and IAST romanization already pre-defined).
>
> Dominik
>
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