On Tuesday 19 April 2005 13:36, Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:

> Forget about WordPerfect. Use Unicode fonts, and create a Word
> keyboard template for Pali documents. See my fonts page for
> more details and some Unicode fonts. Gentium is the best at
> the moment.
>
> http://www.aimwell.org/Fonts/fonts.html

Thanks.

> For typing Pali on forums, use Opera browser which can be
> customised to type Unicode Pali or any language.

Mozilla Firefox, too.

> http://www.aimwell.org/Help/Tips/tips.html#Keyboard

Other suitable Unicode fonts include
Code2000
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2000_page.htm

Everson Mono Unicode
http://www.evertype.com/emono/

FreeMono & FreeSerif
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Amaya/fonts/

Thryomanes
ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/Thryomanes11.zip

I can type Romanized Pali on a standard Linux QWERTY or Dvorak
keyboard in Gnome applications, using Compose key sequences to
combine letters with tilde, dot over, dot under, or macron.
Thus,
Compose _ a ā
Compose ! n ṇ
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