TYPING IN DEVNAGARIIf you think typing in Devnagari is
difficult, just think otherwise. Its very easy to learn
Devnagarityping. You dont need to go to any typing school or join a
computer class. You can start doing ithere.. at your desk.. on your
own computer Now!We have specially developed an easy to learn and
use keyboard that is named as EnglishPhonetic Keyboard. This is a
keyboard where you can type as you might have spoken. Its
reallyeasy and fun learning this keyboard and the sections ahead
can teach you how you can be anexpert devnagari user with this easy
keyboard.The fact is, till recently it was a bit difficult to make
use of Devnagari typing keyboard. There weremany reasons for this.
Today there is no keyboard available in the marketr with keys
printed orengraved in devnagari. The computer keyboards are made in
mass quantity and only with Englishkeys. The manufacturers never
bothered about making keyboards with devnagari keys. The mainreason
for this being the comparatively less demand. Another reason for
this was, there arenumber of keyboard layouts being used by various
people. This has posed a great problem forthe manufacturers of
keyboards in deciding which format to choose as standard. With
theabsence of consensus amongst the developers of Devnagari
software, the keyboardmanufacturers are unable to forecast demand
for the same and as such are not seen venturinginto this area
although there is a great demand in rural markets.As a result, the
software developers started distributing stickers that can be stuck
on top of thekeys so that one can understand where a particular
devnagari character is mapped on aparticular keyboard. It was then
observed that often these stickers get damaged after a use of
3-4months and need to be replaced. While replacing the stickers
often the keys used to getdamaged.To save you from all such
situations, we decided to provide onscreen keyboard that would
remainon your screen as long as you want. The advantage of this was
you dont have to damage youroriginal keyboard. The onscreen
keyboard can be used by clicking the individual keys as youwant to
type respective characters. Thus even novice users can start typing
in devnagari usingthis onscreen keyboard in minutes.We have
provided this clickable onscreen keyboard for our easy to learn
English PhoneticKeyboard. The logic behind this is, if you are an
experienced user of any of the keyboardsupported by Loksatta
FontFreedom XP, then you really dont need to refer to the
onscreenkeyboard. If you do not know typing in devnagari with any
of the keyboards, then you can makeuse of Onscreen, Clickable
English Phonetic Keyboard.The following section explains how you
can easily learn to type in Devnagari using EnglishPhonetic
Keyboard.HELP ON TYPING WITH ENGLISH PHONETIC KEYBOARDKeyboard with
Normal PositionKeyboard with Shift Key PressedTyping in devnagari
with English Phonetic Keyboard very easy and it would take just
about anhour or so to learn this. Lets see how !English Phonetic
Keyboard is a scientifically designed keyboard. Most of the
DevnagariCharacters are available on corresponding english keys.
Devnagari typing can be done by usingthe same English keyboard.
Since this is a phonetic keyboard, you can type with similar
soundingalphabet in English.This means, you can type k for | t for
-| r for etc.Due to the limitation on number of keys available on
the standard keyboard, a few different keyshave been used for some
characters. These characters arec, s , t, c, =, >|, |,, ;, ;, =,
=,|, |, ||, ||,, |, , , -, s and some matras.The typing sequence is
given below.The following table describes the key sequences to be
typed for getting devnagri
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| A|| |+|A + a; ; z; ;Z= = q= = Q| | w| | W|| |+ | A+o|| |+ |
A+O||+ A+x| |+A+ :| | k=| =| K|| g| | G= = *-| -| ca a C| |j;| ;|
J>| >| _ (under score key)cc ' (quote near enter key)s s "t t
[c c {| | N-| -|t| | T: : d| | D| | n-| -| p-| -| P| | b-| -| B-|
-| m| | y r-| -| l| | v| | S| | H| | sr r h= = L-| -| #:| :|
%-||>|||| -||>|||| |+| k + a|` -||>|||`| | +|` k+
i|-||>|||| |+| k+I-||>||| | +k +u -||>||| |+ k+U-||>|||
|+k+ e-||>||| | +k +E|-||>|||| |+ | k +o|-||>|||| |+ | k+O
||||| | +k+x |`|||| |+ k +:||t|-|The combining of characters is
achieved by using the halant key, which is on the key 'f'.
Forexample kra (.|) is formed by ka + halant + ra ( | ) or (kfr).
Similarly da_dha () in siddhi isformed by da + halant + dha (: |)
or (dfD).Similarly the short ee matra is typed after thecharacter.
|`|-| is typed as ka + halant + ta + ee_matra (kfti).The reph
character is formed as typing it as ra+halant+character. The word
-||| is typed as(pUrfNa).For thisr-|-| ( halant )key is used. It is
mapped at' f ' key.Here is how it is used|| | + +| k+f +k|| | ++| k
+f +y| + + | r + f +k47 |+k +&.| |+ + k +f+rc c + + ' +f+r
(or)c c + ' +^c c + + ' +^+u| |+A+\|| | +| A+|| |+ w+\= + r +u= + r
+U>|. >|. ++ + }>| |+ + S + f + r-| -| #>| >| $:| :|
% ^||-|| ( character ']' ) ||-|=| |-| ( Starting inverted comma ) 2
+ ||-|| ( Ending inverted comma ) 3 + ||-||:| 8 + ||-||= 9 + ||-||
0 + ||-||
