At 12:30 PM 18-05-05, Edward Cherlin wrote:

>On Sunday 15 May 2005 21:35, Ray Tomes wrote:
>> Hi Edward
>> I recently got a good program for making the
>> keyboard type unicode pali in any word processor (it uses
>> ctrl-alt-n for .n etc).
>
>Which word processor on which operating system? I can type
>Romanized Unicode Pali in OpenOffice on Linux using standard
>keboard layouts, and there are other such combinations. We
>should collect this information and put it into the FAQ for this
>list, and into a more general Unicode Pali HOWTO.

Yes, please, Edward. I would be most grateful for that. (I'm using OOo too.)

Ray, is that program available for free? Sorry if you've mentioned it before. I joined in again only last week.

This reminds me of PaliTrans by Andrew Shaw, who seems to have disappeared from the Pali scene. According to him, if someone is familiar with Visual C++, "it would only take a day to create a Unicode version of PaliTrans." The program is under the GNU GPL, but I think he disappeared without leaving the source code behind.

While third-party software is fine for typing short chunks of Pali, PaliTrans would make typing long chunks less painful.

peace

Kumâra Bhikkhu