[XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX assigning a key to acharacter

[John Was]

Hello

There seems to be a port of Autohotkey that may allow you to tweak your 
keyboard to achieve this.  See e.g.

http://blog.10minutesoftech.com/app-of-the-week/2012-10-03-autohotkey/

Best


John

-----Original Message----- 
From: NMPOST7
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:04 PM
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion.
Subject: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX assigning a key to 
acharacter

Dear All,

How can a key be assigned to a character? On my Mac (Mountain Lion 10.5.8) I 
am
using a keyboard layout called KeyMagic to type in Malayalam. I got in touch 
the
person who created the Rachana font for Malayalam. Almost all the characters 
of
the alphabet have been coded excellently. Just one character which is 
inserted
where the vocal "a" is omitted needs to be assigned a key

The character is ഽ     and it has the coding U+0D3D

Can this be done in LaTeX? Any way to do this so that I can type the desired
character to get ഽ  .

As an example

typing -------> gives

Ta -------------> ട
pa -------------> പ


(I can copy and paste the character but that produces a place holder (dotted
circle) which does not look nice)

BR
suren


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