[Indic-computing-devel] Fw: Fwd: Re: [hindi] free devanagri keying utilities (was: Re: re:Third Devanagari test)

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <unm...@So...>
To: "Ravikant" <rav...@sa...>
Cc: <ta...@ya...>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [hindi] free devanagri keying utilities (was:
Re: re:Third Devanagari test)


hi!
yes, i had poked around with that software
but it seems that their fonts are not *perfectly* unicode compliant as
they take up some space from the gujarati script section for the
yuktashars
-sdg-

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 12:49, Ravikant wrote:
>
> Dear Tapan and Sayamindu
>
> Tapan, I do not really know what it is but you can see for yourself.
Just follow the link in my
> earlier e-mail and download the latest version of the software from
there and then install Bob
> Eaton's package on your machine. I'll also forward a couple of other
mails to you which he
> posted on the group.
>
> And Sayamindu, a colleague of mine, Joy Chatterjee (jo...@sa...)
tells me that there is a
> bengali unicode generator as well, which you can download from
>
> www.bdcom.com/bangsee
>
> Enjoy
> Ravikant
>
>
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [hindi] free devanagri keying utilities (was: Re:
re: Third Devanagari test)
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:12:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: ravikant Yuyutsu <rav...@ya...>
> To: rav...@sa...
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
>
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> From: Bob & Barb Eaton <bob...@sa...>
> To: derek.e <der...@te...>, rav...@ya...
> Subject: Re: [hindi] free devanagri keying utilities (was: Re: re:
Third Devanagari test)
> Date: 14 Aug 2002 17:27:30 +0530
>
> Derek & Ravikant,
>
> Attached is the keyboard (DevRomU.kmn--a text-like/editable file
that shows
> which keystrokes map to which unicode values--you can edit and
recompile it
> in order to add your own features/keying sequences, though beware
the syntax
> isn't trivial) and the compiled version (DevRomU.kmx) which you
install in
> the Keyman.exe program. If you have Keyman already installed, I
think you
> can just double-click the .kmx file to install it. Also attached is
the Word
> document I mentioned that describes which अक्षर is generated by
which
> keys--mostly what you'd expect for 'romanized' keyboard: "k" gives
क, "K"
> gives ख, etc.
>
> Here are a few additional usage notes:
> 1) Unicode will automatically reverse the 'ikar' when rendering, for
> example, किताब. So that you must type the 'k' and then the 'i' to
get the
> correct rendering (with non-unicode fonts you likely had to type the
ikar
> first and than the consonant after which it is pronounced).
>
> 2) To get the independent form of vowels, you first type 'q' and
than the
> corresponding vowel (e.g. "q" + "i" gives इ).
>
> 3) If you type a number, you get the Arabic numerals (since those
are so
> widespread these days). If you type the backspace following the
number, you
> get the 'Devanagri' numerals (e.g. १).
>
> 4) If you type a capital  "Q"  followed by any letter you get the
roman
> alphabet and that mode continues for the rest of a word (i.e. until
the
> space). This allows you to type a short stretch of English without
having
> to turn the keyboard off.
>
> 5) Speaking of which, if you type "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "D", it turns
on the
> keyboard (by default, though the key sequence you use is
modifiable). You
> should go into "Keyman Configuration", "Options" tab, and set some
other
> sequence (such as, "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "W") to turn it off.
>
> 6) Use the following sequences for consonant conjuncts:
>
> To get the 'stack' characters, use the ";" (e.g. "k" + ";" + "t"
gives क्त)
>
> To get the half-character/full-character conjunct, use the "x" key
(e.g. "k"
> + "x" + "t" gives क्‍त)
>
> To get the full-character/halant/full character conjunct, use the
"X" key
> (e.g. "k" + "X" + "t" gives क्‌त)
>
> 7) Finally, to get the 'flying reph' you can use "R" after the
letter you
> want it above (e.g. कर्म from "k" + "m" + "R") or the 'stack'
approach by
> entering it in linear/phonological order (e.g. "k" + "u" + "r" + ";"
+ "t" +
> "a" for कुर्ता).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Bob
>
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