Downloads

I have finally got around to creating a downloads page. At present the only menu link is on the index page. On the downloads page you will find fonts I use; keyboard maps for Windows that I've created and regularly use for Roman with Unicode diacritics and देवनागरि; and a desk top interface for the digital Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary which is very handy. As far as I know I'm free to give this stuff away, but let me know if you think there are copyright problems.

I'm interested to get feedback on whether the keyboards work and on what systems. So if you try them, please drop me a line to let me know how you get on.

The keyboards are especially cool because they allow you to type characters in whatever application you want (notepad even which is what I use to write Visible Mantra) and this is good because it allows more accurate searching of Google for instance compare these three searches: appamāda vs appamada vs अप्पमाद. I have a Tibetan keyboard for writing Sanskrit as well which is a bit more complex - hope to document it soon and upload it.

BTW if you use Firefox you can specify different fonts for Roman and Devanāgarī - my current set up is Times Ext Roman for Western and Arial Unicode MS for Devanāgarī. There are lots of Devanāgarī Unicode fonts around now.

Fonts and Keyboards

As I keep saying: diacritics matter. If anyone is interested I picked up a self-installing version of the official Windows Times Unicode font recently. I've also created a keyboard map so that I can type diacritic characters in Firefox and Notepad - it's very handy. It comes as a zip file with an installer and some instructions on how to install and activate it.

• Times Ext Roman font
• Indic Keyboard Map

If anyone is really keen to have one I could do a US keyboard map - leave a comment.