user defined keyboards

Jacob,
James,

As the original poster of the message, I can tell you that
Sanskrit is 
not a supported language in so far as there is no Sanskrit
dictionary, 
thesaurus, etc., in OOo, as in most other softwares I know,
for that 
matter. However, typing Sanskrit words in a romanized font
is not a 
problem at all since all the characters that I need are
included in 
Lucida Grande (on a Mac), for example, and can be input
through the 
Insert > Special character menu. The characters for
romanized Sanskrit 
are the same as those for English, except for a macron on
some vowels, 
an acute accent on the letter "s", a dot under
some consonants, etc. 
The characters are therefore available. But going to the
Insert > 
Special character menu every time one wishes to input a
Sanskrit 
citation in a paper is so painstaking that remapping the
keyboard is 
usually the solution. My problem therefore seems to be
related to X11 
or OOo's lack of support of user-defined keyboard.

I had posted a message on a French forum before posting it
to 
oooforums.org, where Jacob offered to looked for a solution.
Then I 
found this forum. But nobody appears to know of a solution
to my 
problem on either forum, so I guess I'll just wait for the
next update 
before switching to OOo, since I cannot do without the
Sanskrit for my 
actual translation project. Thanks.

Raynald Prévèreau

On 2006-10-08 17:03:25 -0400, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51earthlink.net> said:

> Jacob Haddon wrote:
>> i want to confirm that the silence means oo.o x11
>> cannot do this.
>> -j
>> 
>> 
> Jacob:
> 
> Is Sanskrit a supported language?  I don't think it is,
thus I don't
> think the user can do what they are asking.
> 
> James McKenzie



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