Difference between revisions of "Tibetan Input Method"

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Tibetan Input Methods translate sequences of characters typed on standard keyboards into Tibetan glyphs. An input method is one of three components needed for a complete Tibetan Unicode Installation.

Overview[edit]

A very good description of basically all available Tibetan Inputs methods is given at the THDL project of the University of Virginia.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP[edit]

Tavultesoft offers a commercial Tool, Keyman, which supports a number of different input methods for Tibetan. Starting with version 7, Keyman is no longer available for free.

A free input method, TISE, is available here.

Windows Vista[edit]

Vista supports a standard Tibetan input method as part of the operating system. No further software needs to be installed. A Tibetan keyboard can be enabled using "Control Panel / Regional and Language Options".

Linux[edit]

The UIM package contains a Wylie input method for Linux.
The Dzongkha XKB keyboard, which is part of XFree 86 can also be used for typing Tibetan Unicode.
KMFL enables keyboards developed for Tavultesoft's Keyman utility to be used under Linux.

Mac OS-X[edit]

MacUIM is a port of UIM for Mac OS-X.
Chris Walker has also created Unicode Tibetan Mac System Keyboards.

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-...from pgs. 184-185, [[The Light of Wisdom]], Vol. 1, Appendix 7:
+Tibetan Input Methods translate sequences of characters typed on standard keyboards into Tibetan glyphs. An input method is one of three components needed for a complete [[Tibetan Unicode Installation]].
-IV. The [[aggregate of formations]] has the fifty-one mental states which are '''''concurrent formations''''':
+== Overview ==
+A very good description of basically all available Tibetan Inputs methods is given at the [http://www.thdl.org/tools/input.html THDL] project of the University of Virginia.
-*1-5. The five ever-present mental states are contact, attention, sensation, conception, and attraction.
+== Windows 2000 and Windows XP ==
+[http://www.tavultesoft.com/ Tavultesoft] offers a commercial Tool, Keyman, which supports a number of different input methods for Tibetan. Starting with version 7, Keyman is no longer available for free.
-*6-10. The five object-determining mental states are adherence, intention, recollection, concentration, and discrimination.
+A free input method, TISE, is available [http://tise.mokhin.org/ here].
-*11-21. The eleven virtuous mental states are faith, conscience, shame, conscientiousness, [[equanimity]], commiseration, exertion, pliancy, nonattachment, nonaggression, and nondelusion.
+== Windows Vista ==
+Vista supports a standard Tibetan input method as part of the operating system. No further software needs to be installed. A Tibetan keyboard can be enabled using "Control Panel / Regional and Language Options".
-*22-27. The six root disturbances are attachment, anger, arrogance, ignorance, belief of the transitory collection, and doubt.
+== Linux ==
+* The [http://uim.freedesktop.org/wiki/ UIM package] contains a Wylie input method for Linux.
+* The Dzongkha XKB keyboard, which is part of XFree 86 can also be used for typing Tibetan Unicode.
+* [http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/ KMFL] enables keyboards developed for Tavultesoft's Keyman utility to be used under Linux.
-*28-47. The twenty subsidiary disturbances are envy, stinginess, hypocrisy, pretense, self-infatuation, lethargy, excitement, lack of faith, laziness, distraction, heedlessness, forgetfulness, nonattentiveness, hostility, lack of conscience, shamelessness, fury, resentment, concealment, and spite.
+== Mac OS-X ==
+* [http://sourceforge.jp/projects/macuim/ MacUIM] is a port of UIM for Mac OS-X.
-*48-51. The four variable mental states are regret, sleep, concept, and discernment.
+* Chris Walker has also created [http://www.tibetanportal.com/tibetanportal/pages/keyboards/macoskeys.html Unicode Tibetan Mac System Keyboards].
-Among these, the forty-nine excepting sensation and conception and the nonconcurrent formations such as names and attributes, are what perform the function of samsara and nirvana.
-The nonconcurrent formations which are neither matter nor [[cognition]] are: acquisition, serenity of cessation, conceptionless serenity, nonconception, life faculty, birth, aging, subsistence, impermanence, group of names, of words, and of letters, regular sequence, definitive distinctness, connection, link, number, sequence, location, time, and gathering. [[RY]]