How to disable Indic syllable form editing in MS word

[Kan!skA via Indic]

Strongly Agree with Richard, It's not a layout related issue.

You may use BabelPad, for your concerned issue.
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html


Best Regards,
Kaniska PSS Nagraj
https://kanis.hk

On 07-Dec-17 4:49 AM, Richard Wordingham via Indic wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:47:36 +0530
> हरिराम via Indic <indic at unicode.org> wrote:
>
>> While working in MS word 2007, 2010 or higher
>>
>> When one try to Find & replace any particular Unicode Character
>> For Example
>> to replace all
>> 'ा' depended vowel AA
>> with
>> 'ि' depended vowel i
>>
>> it does not works.
>>
>> Only full syllable with ' ा' i.e. का, खा, गा, etc. has to be search
>> and replaced one by one with many repeats.
>>
>> This takes too much time and unnecessary repeats.
>>
>> ----
>> 2.
>>
>> When one try to delete a Indic Character with delete key putting the
>> cursor before a syllable, the right side entire syllable is being
>> deleted.
>>
>> How to delete a particular character instead of entire syllable?
>>
>> How to disable the Indic layout feature in MS word?
>>
>> Would anybody guide please?
> Are you a real Indian?  UTS#29
> (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-31.html) Section 3 Paragraph
> 1 strongly suggests that what you are trying to do is not natural.
>
> These particular behaviours you are complaining of annoy me
> intensely, but I'm a Westerner and so have no rights in these matters.
>
> Indic layout is not particularly guilty, though it makes editing
> clusters difficult.  SIL has a split cursor which attempts to address
> the issue, but I've only seen it in their Worldpad text editor.
> Another technique, which has been available in emacs (I'm unsure of the
> current status), enables one to move the cursor into a cluster Unicode
> character by character, and disables shaping across the cluster.  Even
> this will have shortcomings when working with two part vowels
> canonically equivalent to a single character - one won't know whether
> one has one character or two until one steps into the cluster.
>
> Emacs does, by default, provide what I consider the civilised behaviour,
> whereby pressing the delete key deletes the next character.  That makes
> my life much easier, as I deal with Indic scripts in which it is not at
> all unusual to have 3 or more marks attached to a single base character.
>
> Richard.
>
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