[INDOLOGY] Devanagari keyboard

[Dominik Wujastyk]

So, Tim, would it be fair to say that the general advice for Mac users
wanting to type Devanagari, and to maintain interoperability with doc
files, would be: move to Nisus Writer or LibreOffice?  (The latter is free,
of course, so it's easy to experiment.)

Dominik

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On 14 November 2013 07:34, Tim Bellefleur <tbelle at alumni.ubc.ca> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>  Hans Henrich Hock
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 13 Nov 2013, at 16:07, Matthew Kapstein wrote:
>>
>>   Dear Hans,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Matthew Kapstein
>> Directeur d'études,
>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>>
>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>> The University of Chicago
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