[XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi Chandra,


On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:10:14 +0530
"R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar"
<chyavana at gmail.com> 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,
> > Coptic, Cyrillic, IPA, Arabic and Hebrew. Main language is German.
> 
> The exact solution depends on the operating system and also on what 
> exactly is meant by a virtual keyboard.
> 

The guy's operating system is Windows 7.



> On K/Ubuntu Linux, I have found the ibus input framework
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/ibus/
> 
> to be both comprehensive and functional, especially when used with
> m17n
> 
> http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-en/
> 
> language packages.
> 
> --

Thanks to you and Dominik for pointing me to ibus. What I miss here is
a keyboard popping up to show me where the keys are. For using just say
Devanagari that is not a problem. I learn where to find the various
keys. But if a person uses a bunch of scripts like the guy I mentioned
then it might be a problem. 




-- 
Manfred