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Hi,

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 03:07, peekay wrote:
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> imagine speed typing in
> localisation scenarios .. all
> those matra-ing .. and conjuncts
> and loooong words .. pc will
> do the hard work

Dasher - a Gnome-based accessibility tool, uses predictive text input,
but not exactly the way you are mentioning. Already auto-text stuff
happens quite smoothly with Latin scripts when you use OpenOffice. Gaim
too, supports auto-text through its plugin architecture.

However, to understand how the Indic conjuncts are handled on Linux you
need to be a programmer to understand what goes on under the hood. Even
on Linux, gtk and qt (the two primary toolkits) handle the same stuff
quite differently.

Once you read that code, it becomes apparent that computer isn't quite
the bottleneck as far as predictive Indic typing goes, rather it is the
user. To borrow a now-famous quote by the author Ketaki Kusari Dyson,
your "neuro-muscular linguistics" works against you. ;-)

--indra.

> ..peekay


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