Re: [PersianComputing] Persian input with US/European keyboard

2003-06-12 Thread Nigel Greenwood
As a new member of this List, I find all the x-posting cc'ing a bit confusing. Isn't it simpler if all postings go to PersianComputing? Makes replying a lot easier too! Re Roozbeh Pournader's message of 12 Jun 2003: ... We tried to look at the

[PersianComputing] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Using Microsoft's new keyboard creation tool, we created a keyboard layout based on the latest committee draft for the future national Iranian keyboard layout. You can download it at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/farsitools/persiankeyboard.zip?download Important Note: This only works for

[PersianComputing] Re: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Behnam Esfahbod
Oops! 2. This is a Windows feature: Ctrl+Shift will act like AltGr/right Alt. If you have shortcut keys assigned to them, they may start to act in a weird way. The truth is Ctrl+Alt act as AltGr (right Alt). -- Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ]

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] Persian input with US/Europeankeyboard

2003-06-12 Thread Linguasoft
Title: Message Hi, I tried your demo at http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/fdemo_online.htm and found that some of the substitution rules you use are problematic (e.g., in the beginning of a new line, "oftad" generates and NOT ; in front of certain punctuation marks, "do" generates and

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Linguasoft
Dear Roozbeh, Thanks for your efforts to provide us with an experimental version of the new standard keyboard layout for Persian ! I tried the keyboard in Word2000/Win2000, using Arial Unicode MS which displays all glyphs that can be generated via the keyboard except Riyal sign and Subscript

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] Persian input with US/Europeankeyboard

2003-06-12 Thread Linguasoft
Title: Message Hi,When typing "o", substitution of waw with hamzah (for alef) happens after using Backspace or Ctrl-Alt and then Del, for example when clearing a line or the entire document in the test window, and then typing a word beginning with "o"."Punctuation" I referred to includes

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Linguasoft
Standard shortcuts of Word for C, R, and T refers to copyright, registered, and trademark signs ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linguasoft Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:25 PM To: 'Roozbeh Pournader'; 'The FarsiWeb Mailing List';

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote: Thanks for your efforts to provide us with an experimental version of the new standard keyboard layout for Persian ! You're welcome Peter. But please don't propagate it much, since that may be changed. I tried the keyboard in Word2000/Win2000, using

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote: In a textbook, you might want to say, This here is a maddah. In the past, I wanted to show what a superscript alif compared to fatha looks like and was not able to You should put them either over a space, or a Tatweel (U+0640, the base line extender

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread C Bobroff
Depends on how you define easy. Try! If you don't redefine your concept of easy, people are going to say it's too hard to bother with this script and that's why they advocate romanizing Persian. Do you know just to enable FA input on a Windows machine is asking too much for newbies? You should