thanks for the help! but the fonts i want to use are
not displayed properly on linux. when i open a tamil
text file from the doze partition, it shows certain
characters as junk. lemme be clear about my problem:
1. i cant create a linux faq in the docbook format
because there are no tamil text editors for linux
supporting the tamil monolingual encoding. (and i'm no
programmer!)
2. i'm afraid if the linuxdoc team would reject my
tamil linux faq because it's in plain txt / html, in
which case i'll have to upload in my geocities
homepage and inform the linuxdoc team that i have a
tamil faq at a certain url.
- Diwakar
PS: a doze programmer friend of mine are planning to
write a tamil text editor (rpm) which will solve the
problem of tamil wordprocessing in linux. i'll supply
the text and he'll do the coding. might take time,
though.
--- Shridhar Daithankar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couple of
ideas...
>
> 1)Search a virtual keypad where you can click and
> write. That would be slow
> but should work. I can write one if you want....
>
> 2)I have written an editor to use english keyboard
> to write in deonaagaree
> font. You can copy the idea, use the framework and
> write one for tamil. You
> can copy the lines and paste in lyx. Lyx can do any
> fonts for which there are
> .afms available. So no problems.... You need to
> knowa little programming, how
> to tweak a parser etc...
>
> Let me know if I can be of any help.
>
> Any idea how can I ask lyx to read fonts from a
> different dirs. I have afms
> for all doze fonts and would like to get those over
> to lyx.... Never searched
> myself but still...
>
> Shridhar
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