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(... Anyone know how to make this new fonts available for Open Office? ...) | (... Anyone know how to make this new fonts available for Open Office? ...) | ||
... It seems Open Office recognises only ttf fonts and not otf fonts, so you can use ttf fonts (you can use fontforge to convert a otf font to ttf, if you need) --[[User:Pravs|Pravs]] 06:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
====Input Methods==== | ====Input Methods==== | ||
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* Inscript keyboard layout - Even though it might look a bit difficult to start it is the fastest input method. You can select malayalam keyboard layout from "keyboard" menu in GNOME Preferences section (in my Debain GNU/Linux etch it is Panel->Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard) or (...fill in for KDE here ...) in KDE | * Inscript keyboard layout - Even though it might look a bit difficult to start it is the fastest input method. You can select malayalam keyboard layout from "keyboard" menu in GNOME Preferences section (in my Debain GNU/Linux etch it is Panel->Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard) or (...fill in for KDE here ...) in KDE | ||
[http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/InputMethod/malayalam.jpg Inscript Malayam Keyboard layout] (I would suggest you take a printout of this picture, you won't need it for more than two days maximum though :) ) | [http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/InputMethod/malayalam.jpg Inscript [Malayam Keyboard layout] (I would suggest you take a printout of this picture, you won't need it for more than two days maximum though :) ) | ||
* SCIM - you can type in manglish as you do in [https://sourceforge.net/projects/varamozhi varamozhi]. Please follow these steps: | |||
1. Install SCIM 1.2.2 or later. | |||
* for .deb files see [http://apt.debian.org.tw/pool/s/scim/ here] | |||
* for other SCIM downloads see [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108454&package_id=117128 here] | |||
* install libscim, scm-gtk-module and scim-devel packages. | |||
2. Install KMFL (keyman runtime) version 0.8 or later. | |||
* binaries are available as RPMs and DEBs in [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130915&package_id=143535 KMFL download page ] | |||
* install kmflcomp, libkmfl, libkmflcomp, libkmfl-dev and scim-kmfl-imengine. | |||
3. Download Keymap (tar.gz file)from [https://sourceforge.net/projects/varamozhi here] and extract it. Copy *.kmn to ~/.scim/kmfl & mozhi.bmp to ~/.scim/kmfl/icons (create these directories if it does not exist) | |||
4. Restart SCIM (best option would be restarting X by pressing CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE) | |||
5. Use CTRL + SPACE to active SCIM, select Mozhi Keymap from other keyboards section. | |||
==Microsoft Windows== | ==Microsoft Windows== | ||
See [http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/വിക്കിപീഡിയ:സ്വാഗതം(Welcome) help page of Malayalam Wikipedia] for help in setting up malayalam environment for Windows. | See [http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/വിക്കിപീഡിയ:സ്വാഗതം(Welcome) help page of Malayalam Wikipedia] for help in setting up malayalam environment for Windows. | ||