Devanagari font in MS Word 2003. Conjoint consonants?

[Fred Snodgrass]

MS Word 2003 provides an elegant Devanagari font, but I cannot find any
provision for conjoint consonants in either Hindi or Sanskrit.

What is the practice in typing Hindi in today's India? Two separate
consonants with viram (or virama) after the first one? Surely not!

I hope I won't have to purchase a third party word package.

Help, please.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Fred,

You may want to also post this in the Word International Features
group (link below).

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MS Word 2003 provides an elegant Devanagari font, but I cannot find any
provision for conjoint consonants in either Hindi or Sanskrit.

What is the practice in typing Hindi in today's India? Two separate
consonants with viram (or virama) after the first one? Surely not!

I hope I won't have to purchase a third party word package.

Help, please.
--
Cheers! Fred>>
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MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

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[Fred Snodgrass]

Bob

Thank you for your suggestion, which I shall follow.

This is my first foray into Discussion Groups: I was a trifle surprised at
the comment ' *courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8'. I am
truly sorry if you found my query discourteous.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That "comment" is part of Bob's signature. It appears on every post. I
always assumed it was his philosophy and an admonition to himself, not to
others.