[INDOLOGY] Devanagari keyboard

[Sven Sellmer]

Two years or so ago I wrote to the MS customer service because I couldn't believe that MS Word for Mac is unable to handle Devanagari. They answered quite politely, checked the issue and finally told me that I would have to accept the situation. As far as I can see, MS have not bothered to add this feature in the meantime, which throws some light on their evaluation of the Devanagari market, so to speak. Pages, Open Office, Nisus Writer, even TextEdit have no problem at all.
Best wishes,
Sven


Am 13.11.2013 um 18:02 schrieb James Hartzell <james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM>:

> In agreement with Patrick's note on Mac Devanagari, I forgot to mention that I've also been using the Devanagari QWERTY in Pages; haven't gotten it to work in Word either.
> One can of course always type into a Gmail letter using the Devanagari keyboard, which also uses the 'f' key for virāma's. In this method the conjunct consonants come out nicely.  One can then copy and paste the text in MS-Word.  Keep the keyboard set to Devanagari QWERTY, and type one letter into the word document, e.g. य.  Then put the cursor immediately after the य, and use the Edit, Paste and match formatting.  This will take in your Devanagari into Word on the Mac.  The problem is that Word 'undoes' the conjuncts and turns, for example, उक्त्य into something like उक् क् त् य, at least with Devanagri Samgam MN as the font.  Might someone know of another font that would keep the conjuncts?
> Cheers
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I also use Mac OS Devanagari-QWERTY" and it works well, but only on Pages. It does not work at all on Word -- if anyone can tell me how to use it in Word, I'd be grateful. For conjuncts, as Tim has said, you type the first consonant, then "f" (virāma) and then the second consonant; if there is a third, then you retype "f" and type the third consonant. 
> 
> Uncommon consonant clusters can be accessed by going to "Format" -- Font, Show All Fonts. Then at bottom left click on the pin-wheel and get to Typography. There you will get to click on "Rare Ligatures"
> 
> Best,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Tim Bellefleur <tbelle at alumni.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Matthew,
>> 
>> There is also an exact clone of the straightforward Mac OS X "Devanagari-QWERTY" keyboard layout that I ported to Windows several years ago. It's available for download at http://www.ubcsanskrit.ca/keyboards.html, which also includes instructions and images for the layout.
>> 
>> ​Regards​
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Matthew
>> 
>> 
>> For conjunct consonants, the 'f' key used between consnants works well for many conjunct consonants, including multiples of 3 etc.
>> il. g f y in sequence gives you gya etc.
>> hope this is useful
>> cheers
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>> 
>> Does anyone have some instructions for the use of the microsoft Sanskrit keyboard? It's
>> easy enough to work out the basic consonant + vowel combinations, but I've not so
>> far had much success with conjunct consonants. Any advice will be gratefully received.
>> 
>> thanks in advance,
>> Matthew
>> 
>> Matthew Kapstein
>> Directeur d'études, 
>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>> 
>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>> The University of Chicago
>> 
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