On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:21:55AM +0530, dipankar das wrote: Sorry for the super-late reply ;-(
> 4. And the other problem with Solaiman Lipi is that, the 'Khanda-ta' does > not work in all cases. What i do is, typing a 'ta' and then a 'hasanta' and > then type the next character. In some cases where i am writing a letter that > does not have a natural conjoined form with 'khanda-ta', like say 'sa', as in Solaiman Lipi uses the new Khanda-ta code (0x09CE). If you are using the new Probhat layout then press shift-8 to write khanda-ta. > 6. The non-joining of 'a' and 'hasanta' is another problem. How to write the > character that comes at the start of the words like 'academy' or 'account'. > The 'hasanta' thing does not come after 'a'. So, the way out is to use > 'antastha a', then 'hasanta', and then 'ya'. This looks pretty outlandish. a+hasanta+ya+a-kar is working in my site. > 7. The 'dash' cannot be typed in BN keyboard. Everytime one has to type a > 'dash', first change the KB layout with 'Ctrl-Shift', then type the 'dash' > and then again change back to BN with 'Ctrl-Shift'. This is a nasty thing for > healthy typing. When you technical people will start to think about us, the > poor hapless writers, or type-writers, as it seems at times. Just think, how > many times a 'dash' is used in Bangla words, even within words, let alone as > a syntax sign. This is really a problem. The way out is to use the minus sign from the number-pad. Same goes for the plus sign. > 8. I think some more things are there. I will report them later. And one > apology from the start: i was pretty uneasy to write it here being a > nontechnical person myself. But Sayamindu Dasgupta insisted it. I am using > OOo now for my Bangla writing. And at last i could bid good bye to the MS > thing from my machine. Thank you all for making that possible. Congratulations and welcome.
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