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@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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