Dear friends,

I bought a new computer last month, and decided to use
OpenOffice.org, which is an open source program. I use the word
processor Writer in the suite to type documents containing roman
Pali terms, which I want to be in the proper diacritic form.
However, I am used to typing Pali in Velthuis and converting them to
Unicode with a macro, as I did in Microsoft Word. As such, I have
written a macro which will allow me to do just that.

I am happy to share the macro, which is just a few lines of code. I
have also written a guide on how to set up the macro and run it. The
guide is available here:

http://www.tipitaka.net/forge/forge.php?article=openofficemacro

Please feel free to try the macro. I welcome any comments, questions
and suggestions.


metta,
Yong Peng.