[Indic-computing-users] [*****] New Tibetan Unicode keyboards - FREEWARE (fwd)

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Aug 2003, Vol. 10, No. 14 (198).
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12 Aug 2003=20
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New Tibetan Unicode keyboards - FREEWARE=20

Linguasoft, Vienna, Austria=20

Supplied note: "Two new Tibetan Unicode keyboard drivers have just been
uploaded for evaluation to the [...] Australian download site. These keyboa=
rds
work with a keyboard driver named Keyman (downloadable from the same
website) under MS Windows 2000 or later; to view the output, you also need =
to
install the Arial Unicode MS font or one of the new Tibetan OpenType fonts
currently under development at Microsoft, TCRC (Dharamsala) and elsewhere.

Here is a short description of both keyboards:=20
Tibetan Unicode (EWTS) v2 -
uses an extended Turrell Wylie Romanization scheme (EWTS), an approach that
avoids most uppercase keys and Alt- or Alt-Shift combinations when typing.
Input strings are converted into Tibetan Unicode once a vowel is typed, or =
when
a string is terminated by a space (=3D tsheg). Special rules apply for suff=
ixes with
'a-chung, for shad after tsheg, for Sanskrit letters, and for 'long stacks'=
=2E=20

Tibetan Unicode (Direct Input) v2 - uses a mnemonic layout. To avoid Alt- o=
r
Alt-Shift combinations when typing, a modifier key is used to output glyphs
with certain similarities. Sanskrit letters and "long stacks" are supported=
=2E See
description for details.=20

NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 2 (applies to both EWTS & Direct Input
keyboard:) 1/ Unicode direct input 2/ Menus for special symbols 3/ Help
routine for dictionary lookups, etc. 4/ Toggles between Tibetan and Latin o=
r
Cyrillic mode. Both keyboards are FREEWARE, and your comments are
welcomed. Your comments will help to improve functionality and to develop
upgrades with even more useful features that reflect the real requirements =
of
users. - peh."=20

[Tavultesoft is an Australian software company based in Hobart, Tasmania. T=
he
site provides keyboards for: Basic Lao; Georgian; Maori Tohut=F6 macroniser=
;
Tamil - TSCIIANJAL; Bengali; Greek Polytonic Unicode; Myanmar
(WwBurmese); Tamil - eKalappai; Burmese VRI; Hawaiian; Pan-Sahelian;
Tengwar; Cheyenne; Hindi; Persian (Farsi); The Heidelberg Input Solution;
Classical Greek; Igbo Pitman ITA; Tibetan Unicode (Direct Input) v2; Classi=
cal
Languages Unicode; Klavyeyen Kurdi; Quick French; Tibetan Unicode (EWTS)
v2; Dinka MBSindhi; Runic; Yiddish Pasekh; Enhanced Lao; Maltese Unicode;
SIL IPA 93; Yolngu; Esperanto AltGr; Maltese/Esperanto; Sanskrit CSX;
Yoruba; Esperanto Cx; Maori - Te Nguta Kura macron; Sanskrit Unicode - ed.]=
=20

URL http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/index.php=20

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