Terminology used in GIST products - Keyboard and Character Blocks

Keyboard and Character Blocks :- Common keyboard for all the Indian scripts As the character set is common, the keyboard layout for all the scripts is also the same. The keyboard layout is logical and very simple to learn. The vowels are on the left part of the keyboard and the consonants are on the right side. The vowels are kept on the SHIFT position of the corresponding vowel matra. The aspirated consonants are on the shift position of their un-aspirated counterpart. Consonants in one Varg are kept in one vertical column.

The way you pronounce is the way you type it. Typing is very easy : just key in the characters in the same sequence you pronounce them in a word. GIST will take care of displaying the matras at their proper position and creating the conjuncts. The language specific rules to do these things are known to the system. (e.g. vidya, kra, gra, tra, dra, sra, hra, kSa, pra-rpa).

If you know typing in one Indian script, you can type all Indian scripts. Characters, which are specific to a script, are provided in the same layout. Tamil Za, short "a" sound, Marathi half "ra". In the Script Page the cursor moves from one char block to another skipping the intermediate characters in that block.

It is not worth comparing the mechanical typewriter keyboard layout with the Inscript layout. There is a basic difference in their operation. In the mechanical typewriter typing its parts creates each conjunct. In Inscript type the sequence of the chars and the system creates the conjuncts. The keyboard layout is logical .The keyboard layout is the fastest layout for implementation of the Indian scripts on the computers. The best example would be newspapers like Sakal, Loksatta, and Free-Press Journal, which have been using it for their daily editions.
THE CHARACTER CODE and KEYBOARD LAYOUT IS COMMON TO ALL THE GIST PRODUCTS