Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:14:34 +0200 Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 19.09.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Manfred Lotz: > > > texworks isn't a text processor either and it works in texworks. > > And how is the font you are using? Did you try the same font in GNU > Emacs and gvim? What are the results? Whic

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.09.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Manfred Lotz: texworks isn't a text processor either and it works in texworks. And how is the font you are using? Did you try the same font in GNU Emacs and gvim? What are the results? Which tables/features of the font get used? -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:23:59 +0200 Peter Dyballa wrote: > GNU Emacs and gvim use monospaced fonts. By default. These do not > have ligatures. Switching to proportional fonts might not solve your > problem: editors are not text processors. But they are developing... > (using pango, libotf, li

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.09.2010 um 13:39 schrieb Manfred Lotz: I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in Devanagari which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows up correctly in (out of the box) TeXworks. Both in gvim and emacs Devanagari will be shown but not correctly (at least in cas

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:25:56 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > On 9/19/2010 7:39 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > > I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in > > Devanagari which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows > > up correctly in (out of the box) TeXworks. Both in gvim

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread David Perry
On 9/19/2010 7:39 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in Devanagari which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows up correctly in (out of the box) TeXworks. Both in gvim and emacs Devanagari will be shown but not correctly (at least in case o

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:37:00 +0200 Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > You can use either Devanagari or romanisation as input and get > Devanagari output. > > For some examples, see my blog posts > >- http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/xelatex-for-sanskrit.html > > and > >- > > http://ciki

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
You can use either Devanagari or romanisation as input and get Devanagari output. For some examples, see my blog posts - http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/xelatex-for-sanskrit.html and - http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/09/xelatex-velthuis-encoding-and-palatal.html About Ibus kebo

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:08:09 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > > On 9/19/2010 3:57 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > I found this one: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964651.aspx > > Is it the URL you meant? > Yes, that's the one. Note that when using these graphics you can > click on SHIF

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread David Perry
On 9/19/2010 3:57 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: I found this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964651.aspx Is it the URL you meant? Yes, that's the one. Note that when using these graphics you can click on SHIFT or ALT GR and they will stay "depressed" and show what symbols are avail

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your explanations. I personally don't use any Windows and thus that was most valuable. On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:10:30 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > There's a page on Microsoft's web site where one can get a graphic > showing the layout for each keyboard shipped with Wi

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi Chandra, On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:10:14 +0530 "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 12:01 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > Hi there, > > A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. > > fonts in a single document, like for instance: Devanagari, Greek,

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread David Perry
On Windows (which seems to be the request, not Linux), your friend needs to enable all the languages in which he wants to type using the Control Panel, associating a keyboard with each. He should also enable the option to cycle through the available keyboards using ALT-LEFT SHIFT (that's more

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
I use Ibus under Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and it allows me to type all sorts of different scripts in TeXworks. One can switch between them, etc. It's good. Ibus is the default keyboard handler with Ubuntu, and if you also load the m17n input methods, you'll get plenty of choice. I have recently typed

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Sunday 19 September 2010 12:01 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: Hi there, A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. fonts in a single document, like for instance: Devanagari, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, IPA, Arabic and Hebrew. Main language is German. The exact solution depends o

[XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi there, A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. fonts in a single document, like for instance: Devanagari, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, IPA, Arabic and Hebrew. Main language is German. I told him that XeTex is very good for this. Now my question is: Is here anybody having