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Dear new list members,

 

To type and edit romanized sanskrit I use Word under Windows with John

Smith's CSX+ fonts. I use a template that defines Shortcut keystrokes for

the letters with diacriticals. Alt + letter for letter with diacritical

underneath, Ctrl + letter for letter with diacritical on top, and a few

others. This works great except for one thing. In Word it doesn't seem to

be possible to enter characters defined by Shortcut keystrokes in either

"find" or "replace" commands.

 

Does anyone know of a way to do this in Word. Perhaps someone has written a

Word macro to do this or maybe there is some add-on multi-language software

that adds this capability?

 

If this was possible it would make editting Sanskrit much easier in Word

(global replacements etc.) and also since in the Word replace command you

can say "replace character x in font y with character z in font q" it would

make changing a document with sanskrit in one font to another font fairly

trivial.

 

Is this a problem in word processors on other platforms such as the Mac or

Unix. How do other members edit romanized sanskrit documents?

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

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