How to have Indian language fonts in Open Office

[Mayur M Vegad]

Dear friends, I wander how to get Hindi / Sanskrit / Gujarati fonts in Open Office environment. Though in the available fonts' list (pull down menu) it shows some fonts seemingly for indian languages (e.g., Lohit Hindi, Lohit Tamil, Lohit Gujarati, gargi, padmaa, etc...) but changing to these fonts still writes in English only!! My system is: Debian 5.00, genome. Compaq CQ-45 Laptop. Is there any step I miss here? Better if guided in step-by-step operations!. Is there any other way possible to get such typing possible? I remember before some years, I typed in Gujarati / Hindi in Open Office, however, that time I was using Fedora (perhaps version 7 or 10) on my P-III desktop. Mayur

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[narendra sisodiya]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mayur M Vegad <mayur...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I wander how to get Hindi / Sanskrit / Gujarati fonts in Open Office environment. Though in the available fonts' list (pull down menu) it shows some fonts seemingly for indian languages (e.g., Lohit Hindi, Lohit Tamil, Lohit Gujarati, gargi, padmaa, etc...) but changing to these fonts still writes in English only!!
>
> My system is: Debian 5.00, genome. Compaq CQ-45 Laptop.
>
> Is there any step I miss here? Better if guided in step-by-step operations!.
>
> Is there any other way possible to get such typing possible? I remember before some years, I typed in Gujarati / Hindi in Open Office, however, that time I was using Fedora (perhaps version 7 or 10) on my P-III desktop.
>
> Mayur

I have not tried hindi in Open Office But I will suggest you few things.
If you want to write in Hindi/Gujrati, You need to change the input
method. You can use SCIM Or Ibus. A small incon will appear at system
bar. go to properties and then add indic languages.

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[gajendra khanna]

I normally use KDE. will mention the procedure for that incase
someone's interested:-
1. Open Control Center. Go to Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Layout.
2. Click on Enable Keyboards radio button.
3. Select India on left panel (Available layouts) and click on add.
This will cause a new India layout to come in active layouts on the
right.
4. In the layout variants you can choose 'deva' (if you want standard
hindi keyboard) or 'bolnagri' (if you want phonetic hindi keyboard,
which I prefer since its easy).

Once this is done the KDE Keyboard Layout tool shall be available in
your system tray. Whenever you need to type in Hindi select the
appropriate hindi layout. Once thats done you can type in Hindi in all
softwares supporting hindi unicode including Open Office. If you want
hindi fonts ttf-devanagri package should be installed.

Its possible to do similarly in GNOME also where you have a switcher
applet which you can add to your desktop.
Add -> Utility -> Keyboard layout switcher (for Gnome <2.6). For newer
gnome use 'keyboard indicator'.

[Sharad Birmiwal]

> I have not tried hindi in Open Office But I will suggest you few things.
> If you want to write in Hindi/Gujrati, You need to change the input
> method. You can use SCIM Or Ibus.  A small incon will appear at system
> bar. go to properties and then add indic languages.

To the best of my knowledge, at least SCIM doesn't work with openoffice.

[narendra sisodiya]

Thanks for info.
I do not have Open Office at my live usb. But I have IBus and Abiword.
I am able to write in hindi.
screenshot attached

[Sharad Birmiwal]

> I do not have Open Office at my live usb. But I have IBus and Abiword.
> I am able to write in hindi.

I have ibus installed. I couldn't find any (immediately apparent)
option to change the input method in openoffice to ibus.

SB

[narendra sisodiya]

changing input method is not application specific. In Fedora I use to
run "im-chooser" command to enable it.
are you asking this ??

[narendra sisodiya]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, narendra sisodiya
<narendra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Sharad Birmiwal
> <sharadb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I do not have Open Office at my live usb. But I have IBus and Abiword.
>>> I am able to write in hindi.
>>
>> I have ibus installed. I couldn't find any (immediately apparent)
>> option to change the input method in openoffice to ibus.
>> SB
> changing input method is not application specific. In Fedora I use to
> run "im-chooser" command to enable it.
> are you asking this ??

May be this can help,
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23491

[Sharad Birmiwal]

>> changing input method is not application specific. In Fedora I use to
>> run "im-chooser" command to enable it.
>> are you asking this ??
> May be this can help,
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23491

I didn't know that. Thanks! I was simply trying to right-click to get
the input method (as in gedit).

SB

[narendra sisodiya]

echo welcome;

[mayur]

Thanks to all of you for such a fast response!

I used the "bolnagari" keyboard layout as suggested by Gajendra and it
works fine in Open Office.

But still I am interested in trying SCIM and/or iBus too. I could
install SCIM but it did not show any of the Indic language Keyboard
layout in its pull down menu. I don't know what I miss!.

iBus seems more interesting from the dialog between Narendra and
Sharad. But a search could not find it in my list of packages. What
line need I add in the repositories?

Mayur

On Nov 6, 12:55 am, narendra sisodiya <narendra.sisod...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Sharad Birmiwal]

Offtopic.

I've had problems with japanese input in KDE but Ibus works pretty
peacefully in Ubuntu 9.10 (had to install ibus-qt4). (tested with
kiten)

Thanks again Narendra for introducing this to me :)

SB