Hello,

I've managed to take my favorite seancló font (the Gaeilge font that used to be on the Yamada Language Center site) and update it from a Post Script font to one which gives the correct characters when used with a unicode keyboard layout. Now, on my Mac I have a small bug where the font kicks over to the default unicode font when an accented character is typed, but I can simply type what I want in any unicode font and highlight the text and change the font to Gaeilge after I'm done. I think the computer doesn't know the font works with the unicode keyboard layout even though it does.

Anyway, this greatly improves the functionality of the font. If anyone would like a copy of it for their own system, just email me and I will send you a copy. You can reach me at ANTHONY at VALENTINO dot TO (yes, that's .to ). It works on both Macs and PCs, and I find it to be far more attractive than those on the scriobh.ie site, and it types the old s and r by default, instead of requiring a different input method.

I know that on a Mac, you can get the dotted consonants by pressing option+w and then the consonant, but is there an easy way to get them on a PC without having to use alt codes?

Yes, if one installs a driver which knows how.

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/mearchlar/windows.htm

I use "United States-Gaeilge" keyboard mapping in Win7 (x64), to do the punc all I have to do is type:
/+consonant
eg:
/b = ḃ
/c = ċ
/d = ḋ
/f = ḟ
/g = ġ
/m = ṁ
/s = ṡ
/t = ṫ

Accents for Gàidhlig:
`e = è (etc.

Tironian et (== agus)
\& = ⁊

"Ceol ⁊ craic"
http://mearchlar.tripod.com/

based around the "US International" keyboard which is handy anyways as it has keymappings for umlaut's etc. As my work laptop has a US keyboard layout (" swapped with @) it was easy enough for me to switch from standard Irish keyboard to US one.