[INDOLOGY] Devanagari keyboard

[Tim Bellefleur]

Hi everyone,

The issue with MS Word for Mac is not so much a problem of input, but a
problem of display. Word for Mac uses its own deficient page-rendering
engine which won't reliably compose complex Unicode characters like
Devanagari conjuncts and the "i" matra. As far as I know, there is no
workaround for this, and the issue has persisted through the every new
version of Office for Mac. However, the majority of other Mac-specific word
processors (Pages, Nisus Writer, and TextEdit, but not
LibreOffice/OpenOffice) use Apple's native renderer, which works just fine
with Devanagari.

I used Pages for some time, but its inability to seamlessly operate in Word
.doc format eventually led me to switch to Nisus.

-​Tim​


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Hock, Hans Henrich <hhhock at illinois.edu>wrote:

>  Thanks, Matthew. There does not seem to be a Word-specific keyboard for
> Nagari. What is there is the general keyboard option provided by the Mac
> OS, but this doesn't work in Word for Mac. Alack and alas …
>
>  Hans
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>  Hans Henrich Hock
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>  On 13 Nov 2013, at 16:07, Matthew Kapstein wrote:
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>   Dear Hans,
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> I do not work very much with Mac myself. But, as I recall, it is fairly
> easy to find
> and set the language and keyboard options in the recent versions of Mac OS
> X.
> I haven't used it enough, however, to know the details of the keyboard
> layout.
>
> Perhaps someone who uses mostly Mac can help you with this.
>
> good luck,
> Matthew
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> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
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