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UBC INDIC
4.13 Numbers, punctuation marks, and other marks commonly needed in presenting a text ( -, 5, ), ( ), +, ", ?) are placed where they are commonly found in Roman keyboards.
4.14 Double occurrence of (virāma), 7, and 5 cannot be avoided. It is caused by peculiarities of Macintosh programming.
Some other relevant observations:
5.1 As consonant-vowel combinations are more common than syllables
consisting only of a vowel, the availability of non-initial vowel forms and
of 37-inclusive consonant forms in the first two keyboards contributes
toward increased speed of typing.
5.2 Some other fonts being used for Macintosh printing of Nāgari seem to
have been arranged, at least originally, according to the order of letters found on Nāgari typewriters. Since the use of such typewriters is extremely limited, especially outside India, there is really not much gain in following their order
5.3 The typewriters use the device of 'dead keys' to effect consonant-vowel combinations. In most instances, one has to type the non-initial vowel form first with a dead key and then the consonant shape that goes with it. This method is against the natural way and practice of Nāgarī writing. In the UBC Nāgari keyboard, the sequence that is found in actual writing is preserved. Except for f, the part of which is written
