Thanks fore the replies, jheem. I actually am planning to learn to write devanagari. The reason I'm trying to get the keyboard mapping figured out is in order to be able to print the main characters nice and big on a template sheet for me to copy by hand. As to fiendish, that's really a personal thing, related to the presence of subtle curves and other fineries that are not easy for my clumsy, CP-impaired hands to get the hang of.