Tamil-Linux-HOWTO(1).pdf

Tamil Linux HOWTO

V. Venkataramanan

< venkat@tamillinux.org >

D Sivaraj − Initial conversion from LaTeX to Docbook XML

Jan 2003

Revision History

Revision 1.0

2003−02−14

Revised by: venkat

Initial release, reviewed by LDP

Revision 0.9

2003−1−21

Revised by: venkat

Changes made to comply to TDLP specs.

Revision 0.8

2002−10−24

Revised by: venkat

First draft

This document will help set up a working Tamil Linux environment. This describes setting up fonts, keyboard

drivers, editing and printing Tamil/bilingual documents, and working with the X Window system. The

information is kept as generic as possible. When it pertains to a specific distribution (say RedHat or Debian),

it is explicitly noted.

Tamil Linux HOWTO

Table of Contents

1. About this HOWTO. .......................................................................................................................................1

1.1. Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO. .......................................................................................................1

1.2. Feedback. ..........................................................................................................................................1

1.3. Copyright and License. .....................................................................................................................1

1.4. Acknowledgements. ..........................................................................................................................1

2. Introduction. ....................................................................................................................................................2

3. Fonts. ................................................................................................................................................................3

3.1. TSCII. ...............................................................................................................................................3

3.2. TAB ..................................................................................................................................................3

3.3. Miscellaneous fonts and encodings. .................................................................................................4

4. Console Tamil. .................................................................................................................................................5

5. X Window. .......................................................................................................................................................6

5.1. Installing fonts. .................................................................................................................................6

5.2. Bitmapped fonts. ...............................................................................................................................6

5.3. TrueType fonts. .................................................................................................................................7

5.3.1. Installing TrueType Fonts. ......................................................................................................7

5.4. Other Font Servers. ...........................................................................................................................9

6. Keyboard Drivers. .........................................................................................................................................10

6.1. tamil_kmap. ....................................................................................................................................10

6.2. tamilvp. ...........................................................................................................................................10

7. KDE. ...............................................................................................................................................................11

7.1. Getting Localization Files. ..............................................................................................................11

7.2. Choosing a Tamil locale. ................................................................................................................11

7.3. Choosing Tamil fonts for GUI. .......................................................................................................11

7.4. KDE Miscellaneous. .......................................................................................................................12

8. GNOME. ........................................................................................................................................................13

9. Printing. .........................................................................................................................................................14

9.1. LATEX ...........................................................................................................................................14

9.2. Postscrip. ........................................................................................................................................14

9.3. PDF. ................................................................................................................................................14

10. Word Processors, Office Packages. ...........................................................................................................15

11. Viewing Web pages. ....................................................................................................................................16

12. Pango. ...........................................................................................................................................................17

13. Miscellaneous.. .............................................................................................................................................18

Tamil Linux HOWTO

Table of Contents

A. Appendix of Tamil Font Encodings. ...........................................................................................................19

1. About this HOWTO

1.1. Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO

This document will help set up a working Tamil Linux environment. Step−by−step instructions are provided

for setting up fonts, editors, etc. This document also describes the essential instructions need to use web

browsers, edit documents and print them.

The base URL of this document is:

1.2. Feedback

Comments and suggestions about this document may be directed to the author

( < venkat@tamillinux.org > )

1.3. Copyright and License

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free

Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no

invariant Front−Cover text, no Back−Cover text and no invarient sections.

A verbatim copy of the license can be obtained from the Free Software Foundation Website at

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html

1.4. Acknowledgements

Several postings by the following people were useful in writing this document. The following people are

thanked for all their help:

Thuraiappah Vaseeharan, D. Sivaraj, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram, Dinesh Nadarajah, Anbumani

Subramanian, Ganesan Rajagopal, M.K. Saravanan,...

1. About this HOWTO

2. Introduction

Tamil is a member of the Dravidian languages. Its origin is in southern India and the language is written with

non−Roman alphabets. So there is a need for special fonts, encoding, keyboard layout and drivers, besides

localization, including currency, date format, etc. This document will give a complete overview of setting up

and working in the Tamil Linux environment. There are several pieces of information and tools available for

Linux in Tamil; this how−to will serve as a meta−index to all the scattered resources.

A word before you enter − most of the fonts, tools, RPMs and documents are being gathered under one site.

So try the resources at http://tamil.homelinux.org before you embark on treasure−hunting.

2. Introduction

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: