Re: [ilugd] [Indlinux-hindi] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell
Gora and others, I have been using hindi typing on linux quite a bit recently. I do not need to say that it is really good, and far superior to anything I have seen on windows. I have two small problems that you may be able to help with. I still have some problem with keyboard layouts. I use phonetic layout most of the time but I still do not know where some of the letters are. It will be useful if somebody could pass an image file that gives the keyboard layout. The second problem is that gnome-terminal does not show hindi text correctly. I use mutt for my e-mail and open it on gnome-terminal. Hindi text is not readable there. The half letters come only with a halant, and the matras are also not correctly placed. How does one extend hindi support to gnome-terminal? Vikas On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:53:11AM +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 22:05 +0100, Vivek Rai wrote: (c) Vastly improve existing spell-checking dictionaries, as these rules are not of much use without an adequate dictionary. One way is to have someone type in dictionaries that are out of copyright. I understand aspell is based on list of valid words, right? How about this as a quick way to generate a starting version of such a list? a) store any public domain text in hindi/oriya in a text file. select inputs with reliable spellings. b) create a script that splits the file into words on different lines, does sort -u, and then finally generates a sorted list. c) each of us run this script on any public domain local language text that we find, and upload our lists to the indlinux website. a master list can then be build from this? We have done broadly what you suggest on several texts, and along with input from other sources, we now have a pretty comprehensive list of Hindi words, which should number about 30-40K by now. The problem is to have it proof-read. At the time of proof-reading, we should also have people add affix information for aspell. I will post a note about this soon, and we can talk about a web interface to let people easily do the proof-reading, and add affix information. The other thing I am having a summer intern work on is building a page scraper in Python that will crawl web pages, and grab text within a specified Unicode range. As this would have to be proof-read for validity, I see this as being more beneficial for (a) getting an idea of common mis-spellings, (b) building a corpus in various domains, and (c) as a snapshot of how the language evolves, and how new words come in. Maybe tie this to Newsrack (http://newsrack.in). this wouldnt be perfect, and we will still have to manually keep on adding to it, sorting any misspellings from our sources etc, but i think this could still be a good start. आगे मेरा सुझाव ये भी है की हम इस मेल सूची पर अब हिन्दी में बोलचाल बढ़ायें, ताकि हमारे पास अधिक से अधिक हिन्दी भाषा का पाठ उप्लब्ध हो. आप ठीक कह रहें हैं, लेकिन इसमें कई मुश्किले हैं. एक तो मेरी हिन्दी कमज़ोर है, जिस वजह से मुझे हिन्दी में लिखने अधिक समय लगता है. कई लोगों को तो मुझसे भी ज़्यादा धिक्कत होती है. तो मेरा सुझाव यह रहेगा की लोग अपनी मनचाही भाषा में लिखें, और जवाब दूसरी भाषा में भी आये. Regards, Gora ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [Indlinux-hindi] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:44 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: [...] I still have some problem with keyboard layouts. I use phonetic layout most of the time but I still do not know where some of the letters are. It will be useful if somebody could pass an image file that gives the keyboard layout. What keyboard layout are you using? If you are not sure, maybe you could tell us how you start up the Hindi keyboard part, and how you would type a Hindi word, say namaste. The second problem is that gnome-terminal does not show hindi text correctly. I use mutt for my e-mail and open it on gnome-terminal. Hindi text is not readable there. The half letters come only with a halant, and the matras are also not correctly placed. How does one extend hindi support to gnome-terminal? [...] Unfortunately, that is not a problem that can be easily fixed. From my understanding gnome-terminal cannot be easily fixed to do proper rendering of Unicode, OpenType fonts, which is currently needed to handle Indian languages. Probably the best solution would be to develop a TrueType/console font for Hindi, but that is a lot of work. Regards, Gora ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)
On 6/26/07, Nishant Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but alas, i don't know of a single personal or stereo or other oggplayer hardware available in india. MPIO (www.mpio.com) players support OGG format. They are imported by a Lucknow based company called Nabroco (www.nabroco.com). I have one MPIO but that model does not support OGG. The only fact that made me consider them is they are Linux friendly and are detected as mass storage device - simply drag n drop with unlimited level of directories. nishant, ALL personal mp3 players get detected by gnulinux these days, as mass storage devices for simple drag n drop. and almost all get detected by media-playin' software as well, for music, such as amarok, rhythmbox etc. this is 2007. :-) n ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Looking for Linux Experts !!!
Priyanka Parmar(Mancer Consulting) wrote: Hi All, Is there anyone, who is interested in a Technical Architect's role with a leading MNC in Noida (Telecom/Semiconductor) /SIGNEEDMOREINFO -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070628/tc_pcworld/133543 Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. The application, designed for indexing and finding data in PCs, as well as for searching the Web, also comes in a Mac OS X version, introduced in April of this year. Like the Mac OS X version, Google Desktop for Linux is a beta, or test, product. The Windows version shed its beta tag already, meaning Google considers it a more stable and mature product. At this point, Google Desktop for Linux does not feature the Sidebar and Gadget features present in the Windows version. This Linux version, developed by Google's Beijing engineering team, is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Google Desktop for Linux runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. Users can download it for free from http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html - Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux
Is google desktop any better than say beagle? Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Broadband Connection
I am planning to install broadband (yep, there still are people who don't have broadband at home) and am wondering which ISP provides the best service. I also need to setup WiFi at home. Do these service-providers help set that up too? Kindly advise. Parijat ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection
On 28/06/07, Parijat Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to install broadband (yep, there still are people who don't have broadband at home) and am wondering which ISP provides the best service. I also need to setup WiFi at home. Do these service-providers help set that up too? Best check with them. Or get some one to set it up for you. Are you looking for volunteers? consultants? Please be specific. IMHO people from telecos rarely know anything about security or networking. Another quick way would be to host the next LUG meeting at your home and get the inputs and maybe also get it set cost of snakes and drink to be balanced vis getting inputs (may be) and making lots of noisy friends. ;-) Kidding.. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux
On 6/28/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is google desktop any better than say beagle? No i don`t think so , I have a dual boot machine and i find beagle much accurate than Google desktop Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Linux User #348873 ILUGD Commitee Member, GZLUG , DGLUG Moderator B.Tech 4th Year Computer Science , RKGIT , Ghaziabad http://rockybhai.blogspot.com When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux
Thats right, Beagle uses resources heavily. I too have disabled it and using Tracker which uses less than Beagle. But again, after installing tracker, Application and system reactions are poor to some extent. I havent uses Google Desktop. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection
Parijat Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to install broadband (yep, there still are people who don't have broadband at home) and am wondering which ISP provides the best service. I also need to setup WiFi at home. Do these service-providers help set that up too? / Hi, Since this is an ILUG, I will start with the premise that you need a broadband connection and you will be connecting to the Internet from a Wi-Fi enabled *Linux* laptop/PC. My personal experience with MTNL's Tri-Band has surpassed all expectations. I am on a 256Kbps unlimited connection @ Rs 999/-. I have a Dlink 502-T Adsl router (provided by MTNL) and a D-Link 2100 Wi-Fi AP (i bought this). To this setup connect 3 computers (2 laptops and 1 desktop). The desktop runs Win2k/Debian etch and one laptop runs Ubuntu 7.04 and the other runs Windoze XP Pro (wife's). The Ubuntu Laptop (Toshiba with Intel 3945 wireless) connects to the Internet flawlessly. Please steer clear of Sify and Tata Indicom DSL if you can help it. HTH Shiv - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
