In a Tamil forum I posted a link to Richard's syllabic editor and
also mentionned that typewriter Unicode with visual order input was
available. I wasn't expecting much response because most adult
Tamilians input using English transliteration or the Tamil99
keyboard which is not available on the syllabic editor due to
certain difficulties (better discussed in vellum? ;). However,
these emails came my way from Tamilians.

"I personally would be happy to see the syllabic keyboard
incorporated into a popular word processor.

Thanks for the virtual keyboard link; I have more use for it for my
purposes than the word processor software galore."

and

"Dear Sir, I will be very grateful if you could give me
in detail how the new typewriter/unicide setup works."

So I know that both these concepts - syllabic input and visual order
input - seem to have native-speaker validity to at least one Tamil.
Not a great sample but ...

So for all you computer "jocks" - I can't imagine people of any
other profession so freely providing the advice and consultation
that I have received in this forum. Vellum or qalam, it's all good
to me.

On another topic, Barry posted using his last name within the last
12 months. If someone has introduced themselves it seems like bad
form to accuse them of not introducing themselves - rather than
admit you (the rheotorical you) have forgotten.

Barry and Nicholas were even discussing dot matrix printers together
on this list two years ago, under their own names!

Suzanne

Lucky me - someone didn't recognize this as a female name.