Re: [libreoffice-users] In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Sanskrit?

Hi :)
You can find the right path by looking in 
Tools - Options - LibreOffice/General - Paths
There 'should' be a line for fonts in there.
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sat, 17/9/11, elcico2001 एल्चिको <elcico2001@yahoo.it> wrote:

From: elcico2001 एल्चिको <elcico2001@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Sanskrit?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: winston@cs.wisc.edu
Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 13:21

 Il 17/09/2011 07:05, Winston Yang ha scritto:
> In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Devanagari/Devanaagarii, for Hindi or Sanskrit?
>
> I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Linux (Trisquel 4.5.1).
>
> I tried going to the following places:
>
>          Trisquel: System > Administration > Language Support
>
>          Writer: Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages
>
> Thank you.
>
> Winston
Hello Winston,
You can do the following - works for openoffice on debian 6.0, I suppose that's the same for 
libreoffice:

   * download sanskrit font sanskrit2003.ttf (
     http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator2003.htm -
     http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip )
   * copy sanskrit2003.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype (that should be
     the right path, but I'm not sure on your distro)
   * supposing you have Gnome (if you use KDE let me know), go to
     System --> Preferences --> Keyboard  and choose the tab
     Disposition (that should be the english name)
   * click "add", choose "By Nation", select "India", click "add"
     again, then close the keyboard preferences window
   * if it doesn't appear by itself, add a keyboard indicator on the
     Gnome menu panel --> right clic on the panel, click "add to panel"
     and select "Keyboard indicator"
   * once you have the keyboard indicator on your panel, select indian
     layout, then open libreoffice writer
   * if the keyboard layout has changed... go back to indian again
   * select sanskrit 2003 font
   * and finally... write in sanskrit! :)

Namastè! or I'd better write... नमस्ते  :)

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