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

On 09/17/2011 08:21 AM, elcico2001 एल्चिको wrote:
>  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)
I just click on the font and a font preview window pops up with an 
"Install Button"
I use Ubuntu [Debian], and that is how I install fonts.  All my fonts 
appear in a .font hidden folder.  So if they need to go into the folder 
you listed, the need to go into the hidden one as well.

There is a font named Devnagri.  I have seen over 200 versions of that font.



>    * 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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