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

Thank you for your replies.

I followed the messages below from elcico2001 and "webmaster for Kracked 
Press Productions" about installing Sanskrit 2003 and changing preferences.

Trisquel 4.5.1 is a little different from what elcico2001 
wrote---instead of a "Disposition" tab, there is a "Layouts" tab. I went 
to the following places:

System
> Preferences
> Keyboard
> Layouts (tab)
> Add (button)
> By language (tab)
> Language (drop-down list)
> Hindi.

On the GNOME panel at the bottom of my desktop, there are two keyboard 
icons, one with an earth ("Keyboard preferences"), and one without 
("IBus input method framework").

Right-clicking the icon without an earth gives a menu with radio buttons 
for "USA" and "India Hindi Bolnagri".

When I chose "India Hindi Bolnagri", I was able to type Devanaagarii 
(Hindi, Sanskrit) in Writer.

@soumalya ray,
@Tom Davies:

        Trisquel 4.5.1 has System > Preferences, but no Language.

Winston


On 09/17/2011 09:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Same family so it's probably exactly the same
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Sat, 17/9/11, soumalya ray<drsoumalya@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> From: soumalya ray<drsoumalya@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Sanskrit?
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 13:54
>
> dont know about 'trisquel'.for ubuntu lucid,i went to
> system>preference>language
> choose bengali(as its my native language).keyboard shortcut appear in the
> panel(previous to lucid,you need to add this separately).
> anyway when i need to type,i just clicked on it and bengali gets
> activated.its system wide-works in firefox,chromiun,LO.you need not to
> install any separate language pack for it to work.just the font.since
> sanskrit uses devnagari script (also used by hindi),so that should not be a
> problem.
> but as i've said this is for ubuntu lucid;dont know about trisquel
> regards,
>
>
> On 17 September 2011 18:10, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<
> webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
>
> > 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/itranslator2003.htm>-
> > >       
> > > http://www.omkarananda-ashram.**org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip<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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