about input keyboard

[Vladimir Voevodsky]

Hello,

is there a way to produce three parts combinations such as, for example, ṣṭai (ष + त + ऎ) using a Devanagari input keyboard on Mac?

Thanks!
Vladimir.

[Nityanand Misra]

Prof Voevodsky

Try the online Google Transliteration for Sanskrit - see the snapshot below.

Note that ष्तै will mos likely become ष्टै or ट्तै by the Sandhi rules.

Nityanand

Vladimir.

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[Shreevatsa R]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Vladimir Voevodsky <vlad...@ias.edu> wrote:

Hello,

is there a way to produce three parts combinations such as, for example, ṣṭai  (ष + त + ऎ) using a Devanagari input keyboard on Mac?

Dear Prof. Voevodsky,

This is a very very late reply, but you can do either of the following:

1. As Misraji suggested, use an online transliterator, like http://learnsanskrit.org/tools/sanscript or http://shreevatsa.appspot.com/sanskrit/transliterate.html or Google Transliteration or many other available transliteration tools, so that typing something like STai results in "ṣṭai", which you can copy and paste.

2. For Mac OS X: 

Install the EasyUnicode keyboard layout by Toshiya Unebe:

* It is available at http://www.palitext.com/subpages/PC_Unicode.htm and documented at http://ebmp.org/p_easyunicode.php (also attached).

* Copy the file EasyUnicode.keylayout to ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/

* In System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Input Sources, enable EasyUnicode (also check "Show Input menu in menu bar")

* Now you can change the input source (keyboard layout) to EasyUnicode (from the menu bar at the top of the screen), so that typing Alt+a gives ā, Alt+t gives ṭ, Alt+s gives ś, Alt+x gives ṣ, and so on, as documented.

Hope either of these helps,

Regards,

Shreevatsa