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

2003-06-14 Thread Linguasoft
There is a difference. Dead keys are typed before the base letter. These are typed after the base letter. Correct. A Unicode wordprocessor package in the creation of which I participated some 10 years ago called the latter variety accent modifier keys (which isn't very clear either). The question

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

2003-06-14 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote: The question remains why you provide direct keyboard input for combining hamza madda. Are there any letter combinations other than with alef/ya/waw that can be created via combination? Yes. Heh. (I've seen accents added in handwriting for Pashto and

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

2003-06-14 Thread Linguasoft
Remember that accents are different from HARAKATs. We only discussed combining symbols (hamza madda), not short vowels. Peter ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

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

2003-06-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote: If you don't redefine your concept of easy, Well, honestly the way it is now in MS software (or even Linux) is not good enough even for experts. IMO, all OS-es should come automatically with all languages enabled, or, at the minimum, come with an automatic

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

2003-06-13 Thread C Bobroff
I may help you with information from ALA-LC (American Library Association/Library of Congress) containing exact lists of characters, alongside with standard transliterations, for all languages you are interested in. For whatever they're worth, they're here as PDF files:

[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] 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] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-12 Thread Linguasoft
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[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