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

Possibly not everybody knows---today (September 17) is Software Freedom 
Day. There may be events happening in a city near you:

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

To celebrate, the maintainers of Trisquel, a fully-free version of 
Linux, have released version 5.0:

http://trisquel.info/

(I found out about the above events just today.)

Winston


On 09/17/2011 01:27 PM, Winston Yang wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Regarding distros, besides Trisquel 4.5.1, I've used or tried the 
> following distros:
>
> --- Ubuntu 10.10
> --- Ubuntu 11.04
> --- Linux Mint
> --- gNewSense, a fully-free distro
> --- RedHat
>
> I may have also used Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Winston
>
>
> On 09/17/2011 05:50 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > I think you need
> > Tools - Options - "Language Settings"
> > Near the bottom tick the "Enabled for Asian languages and maybe tick 
> > the "Complex Languages (CTL)"?
> >
> > It is good to hear someone using Trisquel.  Debian family (same as 
> > Ubuntu, Mint etc) but meets the very demanding requirements of the FSF
> > http://www.fsf.org/
> > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
> > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=trisquel
> > http://trisquel.info/
> > Looks good but i guess it needs a bit of experience with Gnu&Linux 
> > before trying something  like this?  Have you already used other 
> > distros in the same family?
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 17/9/11, Winston Yang<winston@cs.wisc.edu>  wrote:
> > 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


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