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These are the available Unicode Fonts. | These are the available Unicode Fonts. | ||
* [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Rachana_w01. | * [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Rachana_w01.zip Rachana] | ||
* [http:// | * [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/Meera_w01.zip Meera] | ||
* [http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net/fonts/AnjaliOldLipi.ttf AnjaliOldLipi] | |||
Also check [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04] for latest fonts. | |||
AnjaliOldLipi font displays both Unicode 5.0 and 5.1 "Chillus" (consonants without vowel sounds). However, rest of them deals with Chillus written as in Unicode 5.0 only. | |||
To setup the fonts just copy it to ~/.fonts directory or open nautilus file manager and go to location (press CTRL+L and type location) fonts:/// and drag-n-drop font files to this location. If you want it to be available to all users copy it to /usr/share/fonts. You can check whether the fonts are installed correctly by running the command fc-list (eg. fc-list |grep Rachana ). Restart the running applications so that the new fonts are available to them. All aplications which depend on font config will be able to use the newly installed fonts. | To setup the fonts just copy it to ~/.fonts directory or open nautilus file manager and go to location (press CTRL+L and type location) fonts:/// and drag-n-drop font files to this location. If you want it to be available to all users copy it to /usr/share/fonts. You can check whether the fonts are installed correctly by running the command fc-list (eg. fc-list |grep Rachana ). Restart the running applications so that the new fonts are available to them. All aplications which depend on font config will be able to use the newly installed fonts. | ||
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... 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) | ... 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== | |||
===''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 :) ) | ||
===''Lalitha phonetic keyboard layout''=== | |||
For more details see [[SMC/Lalitha|this page]]. | |||
=== '''SCIM'''=== | |||
====''Phoentic Input Method- സ്വനലേഖ ''==== | |||
This input methods provides an easiest method to type Malayalam in Manglish. It comes with flexible keymapiings and typing suggestion features. | |||
Visit [[https://wiki.smc.org.in/സ്വനലേഖ സ്വനലേഖ]] for more details. | |||
====''Mozhi Keymap''==== | |||
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. | 1. Install SCIM 1.2.2 or later. | ||