Sahaayaa,

An acquaintance of mine at the Pali Text Society received the
following query from a student. Would someone like to give it a try?

With Much Thanks,
Paul

>A few years ago I created a Romanised Pali keyboard in software for
>WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. At the time several PTS members had done

similar

>work using different systems and different software. It seems all

of
us

>addressed the lack of suitable software individually.
>
>I now need to send some Pali transcriptions to someone.

WordPerfect
is no

>longer in common use, and naturally the characters I've created

drop
out

>when the files are transferred into other software. I also can't

print the

>files from WordPerfect as modern printers use USB and not parallel.
>
>I'm intending to see if Microsoft Word is capable of creating the

character

>sets I created in WordPerfect, but I thought I'd ask you first in

case

>anyone at the PTS has already made a MS Word Pali keyboard.

Alternatively,

>if one is needed and I do the work myself, I can let the PTS have a

copy if

>it would be useful. And indeed, the WordPerfect keyboard is

available
if

>anyone still uses WP 5.1 for DOS.
>