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I have come across previous posts (LaTeX/XeTeX setup Tamil/Indic languages) where Tamil could be written. I currently have the US layout English keyboard on my computer. Is there some way to somehow still type in Tamil?

I mean similar to, say, Greek alphabets where I can (with some effort), write \alpha, \beta, etc., in math-mode and construct words and sentences. Is there someway to use a backslash and a combination of alphabets to generate a Tamil alphabet. For example, something like \a to generate அ, and so forth?

I currently use Linux,and use PdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022).

Ginko-Mitten
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    you really should consider switching to a unicode Tex such as luatex for languages such as Tamil the possibilities with pdftex are far more limited whatever keyboard input you use – David Carlisle Oct 30 '22 at 08:19
  • see itrans example here for Tamil using transliterated Roman input https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1594/1090 – David Carlisle Oct 30 '22 at 08:26

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