Thanks Larry for the tips on getting cst4 installed on Windows 7 pc's. I
was also inspired to finally install the pali-keyboard input software
from the same cst4 area: http://www.tipitaka.org/keyboard/

If I knew it was that easy to set up and start typing pali special
characters, I would have installed that a long time ago.

The page I listed shows the keyboard mappings, I made my own shorthand
notes here: What I noticed is that 9 out of the 14 special characters
map intuitively, e.g. the keyboard [a] produces " ā" with the macron, so
we really only have to memorize or write on a little post-it note to put
next to our keyboard the 5 miscreant special cases.

[ctrl]+[alt]+[ ] : [y] → ñ [a] → ā [I] → ī [h] → ś [u] → ū [d] → ḍ [v] →
ḥ [l] → ḷ [m] → ṃ

[g] → ṅ [n] → ṇ [r] → ṛ [s] → ṣ [t] → ṭ


[ctrl]+[alt]+[shift]+[ ] : produces uppercase version of pali letter


14 special pali letters. 9 of 14 map intuitively