[Indic-computing-devel] Re: Indic Computing Workshop

[Tapan P. <ta...@ya...>]

Sounds interesting, is it just like some kind of
souped up keyboard driver?

Im sure everyone on indic-computing-devel would like
to hear about this and propose alternatives for other
OS's.

-- Tapan

--- Ravikant <rav...@sa...> wrote:
> 
> Dear Fred and all,
> 
> I'm wrting to all of you also to share with you the
> info about a Windows 
> solution for generating unicode fonts. 
> 
> The following is copied from a mail Bob Eaton posted
> on a hindi list at yahoo 
> groups:  
> 
> There's a free keyboard manager (for non-commercial
> use) called "Keyman"
> available from http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
> that can be customized to
> generate any unicode or otherwise keying sequences
> one desires. I've written
> a keyboard table to generate Unicode Devanagri which
> I'm willing to give to
> anyone that's interested. It's basically a romanized
> version where the 'k'
> key generates /à¤*/ (kkar), 'K' generates /à¤-/
> khkar, etc. There's a word
> document that goes with it to show the keying
> sequences for consonant
> clusters, etc. 
> 
> end of Bob Eaton's posting. 
> 
> I've tested it on windows and it works really fine.
> Using the keyboard you can 
> write straightaway into your mail compose box. It is
> also a more logical and 
> convenient phonetic (means you follow the English
> equivalents to Hindi 
> letters) keyboard than all others I've come across
> so
> far. To write you do not have to go to a hidden
> insert character box, nor do
> you have to punch five keys to generate a
> 'samyuktAkshar' or combined letters.
> It is such happiness to see your file name and
> subject header in Hindi! 
> In short, it is the penultimate solution to Hindi
> woes. 'Penultimate' because
> I will wait for the 'Free' solution. 
> 
> If you guys are interseted in testing it I can send
> his devnagari keyboard to 
> you. The reason why I'm pushing it is that we will
> have to develop something 
> like this for Linux machines. Unicode is the future
> and here is a simple 
> solution! Much better than cut-paste method one has
> to resort to on Yudit. 
> I'm sure we can discuss all this in the Indic
> computing workshop.
> 
> So, this mail is also a confirmation of our
> participation in the workshop. 
> Supreet and I are definitely coming. Sorry for the
> slight delay. 
> 
> Cheers
> ravikant   
> 


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