> There are 26 etc alphabets, a to z, in
> English/European languages and on LyX software
> package.
>
> Project:
> 1 of these alphabets needs changing from
> english/european to sanskrit. When user presses this
> alphabet key on their local machine the chosen
> alphabet shows as a sanskrit alphabet instead of the
> english/european alphabet.
Correct support would be that users with a Sanskrit keyboard can directly insert the Sanskrit
characters. This is already supported by LyX. What is needed is that you can set up your document to
a Sanskrit one, so that will LyX automatically load the devanagari LaTeX-package:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/devanagari.html
To be able to write Sanskrit with an English keyboard, create a keyboard map similar to the many we
already ship with LyX. Switching to this map can easily be done by e.g. the F11 and F12-key. See
this page for how this is done e.g. for Hebrew:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew
> 1:1 alteration in the alphabet -> from
> english/european alphabet to a sanskrit alphabet.
> Instead of user having to write the content on their
> local machine and then having to change one of the
> alphabet through find and replace function, they now
> can process immediately.
I don't understand what you mean by this.
In general, sending patches is better than forking. All LyXers should benefit from your work. A
patch to support the devanagari-package is very welcome.
regards Uwe
