[ubuntu-in] trying to contact Gora Mohanty

2009-06-01 Thread Dinbandhu
I have been trying to reach Gora Mohanty for quite some time, but have been unsuccessful at reaching him via the email . Does anyone know if he has changed his email address? I have some important things to discuss regarding the Hindi spellchecker for aspell, and have been trying to reach him for

Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-07 Thread Dinbandhu
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:02 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:16:02 -0400 > Dinbandhu wrote: > [...] > > > > > o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in > > >a different computer, with: > > > make dist >

Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-07 Thread Dinbandhu
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:20 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) > Dinbandhu wrote: > > > I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized > > dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and > >

Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-06 Thread Dinbandhu
--Original Message- >From: Gora Mohanty >Sent: Apr 5, 2009 12:50 PM >To: ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer > >On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) >Dinbandhu wrote: > >> I hav

Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-03 Thread Dinbandhu
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 22:34 +0530, "Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा)" wrote: > Dinbandhu wrote: > > --I just rejoined the list yesterday, and couldn't tell whether this > > reached the list or not-- > > > > > It did reach the list. If you are not sure

[ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-03 Thread Dinbandhu
--I just rejoined the list yesterday, and couldn't tell whether this reached the list or not-- Hello All, I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is spec

[ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer

2009-04-02 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello All, I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi

Re: [ubuntu-in] How to get SCIM running in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-05 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello, On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 08:43 +0530, ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Hello, > I've just installed Ubuntu 8.04 and I've set SCIM to show on > the too

Re: [ubuntu-in] How to get SCIM running in Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-03 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello,I've just installed Ubuntu 8.04 and I've set SCIM to show on the toolbar always, as well as turning on with the command "ctrl-space". But the SCIM icon is not showing up on the upper panel (or anywhere for that matter) the way it used to in Feisty. And when I do ctrl-space, nothing is happeni

Re: [ubuntu-in] Hardware compatibility list for Ubuntu in India

2008-04-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 09:15 +0530, shirish wrote: > 3. Are there any hardware-vendors who have or are thinking of having a > GNU/Linux service support team. That would make a big difference to an > everyday user rather than people like us who just like to tinker/fool > around and do have time to se

[ubuntu-in] Hindi Spell Checker for OO Writer?

2008-03-22 Thread Dinbandhu
Has anyone found a Hindi spell-checker that works in OO Writer? I have heard all sorts of talk about Aspell and Hunspell, but I have never found anything that will actually start up and be recognized and work in OO. Has anyone actually had success with any such spellchecker, and if so, could you le

Re: [ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad

2008-01-09 Thread Dinbandhu
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:46 +0530, Vishal Gaurav wrote: > Hello, > Thanks, > You don't maintain here yet, Which brand make your hard disk. > Are you downloaded tools from hard disk maker website. > I don't figure out, why you having problems with g parted softwares. > I was tried it in many many ma

Re: [ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad

2008-01-08 Thread Dinbandhu
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:01 +0530, Vishal Gaurav wrote: > Hello, > Here in this list have less chance to get help about g parted . Try to > ask question in g parted mailing list or in there forum. > Anyway, > Probably your hard disk have bad sector. > Which company make your hard disk.? > Go to ha

Re: [ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad sectors but XP CHKDSK says NO

2008-01-07 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:33 -0900, Tom M wrote: > Ah sorry yes it is clear what you were saying upon rereading, > > perhaps you should ask at the gnu parted bug list? > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted Thank you for the suggestion. I have joined the bug list just now, and sent

Re: [ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad sectors but XP CHKDSK says NO

2008-01-07 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:13 -0900, Tom M wrote: > why are you using ntfsresize? Just use gparted, it has ntfs support > internally and can shrink the partition size. In my initial letter I explained that gparted is refusing to shrink the partition. This is the whole problem I am facing. Gparted s

[ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad sectors but XP CHKDSK says NO

2008-01-07 Thread Dinbandhu
I just purchased a 3 year-old laptop (Dell Latitude D400) which has XP on it. I want to set up a dual boot with XP and Gutsy. I have a Parted Magic live cd so I booted up with that to downsize the XP partition and free up space for Gutsy. Once Parted Magic booted up, I opened Gparted to downsize th

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-17 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:48 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok. --That worked. By typing "swriter" in terminal, OO opens. Now, if in > > the course of my Hindi typing the program crashes, will an error message > > come up automatically in terminal? Or will I have to type something in > > termin

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-16 Thread Dinbandhu
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 15:09 +0530, Roshan wrote: > On Sunday 16 December 2007 14:02, Vivek Khurana wrote: > >On Dec 16, 2007 1:10 AM, Dinbandhu wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 21:57 +0530, Roshan wrote: > >> > On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:43, Dinbandhu wrot

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 21:57 +0530, Roshan wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:43, Dinbandhu wrote: > [...] > > OpenOffice, please note, is the name of the *office* suite. If you were > (are) a power Windows user, you'll know MS-Word has its application > n

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 16:31 +0530, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > check if its not a hardware problem, How would I "check" for this. > maybe your cpu overheats, or a RAM snag > that can be a possibility I doubt it, because I've been using this computer for almost ten years, and never had any such prob

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:53 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: [...] > > So, your case is probably a bug in SCIM. Is it possible to > reliably reproduce it, or is it something that happens only > after long use. It can happen equally after 30 seconds or after long use. The time seems irrelevant-- it jus

Re: [ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 23:50 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 10:59 -0500, Dinbandhu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I do a lot of typing in Hindi (Devanagari) using OO Writer 2.3. I input > > characters using SCIM M17N-hi-baraha. I find that, in a typical

[ubuntu-in] OO Writer freezing when write in Devanagari

2007-12-14 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello, I do a lot of typing in Hindi (Devanagari) using OO Writer 2.3. I input characters using SCIM M17N-hi-baraha. I find that, in a typical two-hour typing session, the program will freeze 5-8 times requiring me to close down Writer by force, and reopen it. In addition to the time loss, usually

Re: [ubuntu-in] Loaded Ubuntu 7.10 in my desktop

2007-10-22 Thread Dinbandhu
nths ago on this list. If you have those mails, you will find it there. Unfortunately, I do not have time right now to go looking through those mails myself for you. If you kept the discussion, then you will find it there. It is very clear. Swarup > On 10/22/07, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [ubuntu-in] Loaded Ubuntu 7.10 in my desktop

2007-10-22 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:59 +0530, 74yrs old wrote: > Whether Telugu and kannada display correctly in the latest version? Is > there phonetic keyboard layout for Telugu and Kannada - similar to > Baraha type in Windows? Because Ubuntu 7.04 does not display > character map correctly and there is no

Re: [ubuntu-in] After OO 2.3 Upgrade, will SCIM reinstall be needed?

2007-09-17 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello, I am looking at upgrading to OO 2.3, because of some bugs in my current version (2.2) in working with OO Base. I would like to know whether once I do the upgrade, I am going to have to reinstall SCIM with all the various languages and keyboards I use, or whether those are all part of one's

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM: imp. add'n in baraha system

2007-09-10 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:07 +0530, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On 9/9/07, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Gora, > > > > 1. In the Baraha system, F12 is a toggle button for toggling between > > English and whatever language one is typing in. > > &

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM: imp. add'n in baraha system

2007-09-08 Thread Dinbandhu
Hello Gora, In the process of using SCIM Baraha the last several weeks, two features present in the original Baraha have come to my attention that relate with its efficiency of use, and it may be well worth considering their incorporation (should it be possible). 1. In the Baraha system, F12 is a

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM: Some Questions in Baraha system

2007-09-04 Thread Dinbandhu
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:53 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:27 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > Some follow-up questions regarding the baraha and Unicode work: > [...] > > > I am wondering if you have finished work on the Shiva font yet? > [...] > >

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM: Some Questions in Baraha system

2007-08-29 Thread Dinbandhu
Dear Gora, Some follow-up questions regarding the baraha and Unicode work: 1. > Growing out of the work on the Unicode Baraha maps, I have > almost completed a keymap for the Devanagari Shiva font, using the > same Baraha layout. Shiva is an 8-bit, TTF font widely used by > pri

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need linux-based e-mail program which allows editing of incoming mail

2007-08-29 Thread Dinbandhu
> ----- Original Message > From: Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ubuntu India Local Community > Sent: Sunday, 26 August, 2007 1:37:18 AM > Subject: [ubuntu-in] Need linux-based e-mail program which allows > editing of incoming mail > > In our home-office w

[ubuntu-in] Need linux-based e-mail program which allows editing of incoming mail

2007-08-25 Thread Dinbandhu
In our home-office we manage a daily e-mail newsletter, and have just brought our entire archive over from Eudora in Windows, over to Thunderbird in Feisty. But we are facing a serious problem, because our own daily newsletter when we send it out and ourselves receive a copy of it, we need to be ab

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap: Unicode and TTF

2007-08-23 Thread Dinbandhu
Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:19 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > [...]in your experience how common is it > > for Hindi readers to be accessing computers running on for example Win > > 98 which can only recognize TTF fonts? > > Not so sure about Hindi, but in Orissa there were quite a

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-22 Thread Dinbandhu
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:17 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Swarup, > In case if final version of hi-baraha has been released, I may be > informed whether the > said version is capable to run Kannada as well as Telugu, Tamil > similar to Baraha(MSwindows) also and if so, from where I can downl

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-22 Thread Dinbandhu
Just wondering whether the changes incorporated in the final version of hi-bahara have also been applied to the other languages Bengali etc, so they can be tested? Regads, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-20 Thread Dinbandhu
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:56 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > If there is sufficient interest, I can consider making the > transliteration script into an OpenOffice plugin... I've had to step away from this work for a few days to finish another project, which is now done. So I'll try and test the tran

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-16 Thread Dinbandhu
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:17 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > You can test it as per point 3 in my earlier message, reproduced below: > 3. Here are some examples of using remap_lang: > remap_lang -i Devanagari -o Bengali < infile > outfile >transliterates Devanagari text in "infile" to Bengali

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-16 Thread Dinbandhu
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:17 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:37 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > [...] > > I have read through the directions you provided... > [...] > > The installation process is quite easy, and I have simplified it > further (see bel

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap: Unicode and TTF

2007-08-15 Thread Dinbandhu
I have a question regards Unicode and TTF. The superiority of Unicode is clear from both scientific and systems approach perspectives. My question stems from a perceived need to be able to communicate with persons around the world whose computers are not yet upgraded to be able to accommodate Uni

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 03:50 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 07:56 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > [...] > > One further question: in Baraha, there is a facility for interconverting > > text between languages. For example, a particular text which is written > >

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:36 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > Please let us know if this still shows problems. Also, please follow up > on the list if you are happy with the Hindi keyboard, as I can then > process those for the other Indian languages, and people can test them > out. I have thoroughly

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:36 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:42 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > [...] > > I just downloaded this, and it is strange but none of the amendments > > were functioning. > [...] > > This is strange, as I see nothing wron

Re: [ubuntu-in] final bugs in SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-15 Thread Dinbandhu
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:15 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > 3) "G" and "gh" should both produce "घ ", but now only "G" does. > > Now, "gh" incorrectly produces "ग्ह". It should produce "घ ". > > Fixed. > > > 3a) As an addendum to clarify point (3) above, here is Baraha's own > > explanation of th

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 22:03 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > An updated file has been uploaded to > http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/hi-baraha.mim > Please see comments below. I just downloaded this, and it is strange but none of the amendments were functioning. It is just as it was. I do not know

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
Here I am just resending the second set of hi-baraha bugs, in case it was not received around 8 hours back. - Dear Gora, I've gone through carefully letter by letter and checked the whole keyboard. By so doing, I've found a few more bugs. With a little luck,

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 22:03 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > An updated file has been uploaded to > http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/hi-baraha.mim > Please see comments below. Great. Many thanks, Gora. You have replied here to the first posting of bugs which I sent, which contained 7 bugs. I am wo

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM all Indian Languages Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
Dear Gora, I could not check all the other Indian languages because I do not know them all. But as I mentioned, so far Bengali is having the same bugs as Hindi had. Once the changes I've sent you have been implemented in Hindi, what do you think of going ahead and implementing the same changes in t

Re: [ubuntu-in] final bugs in SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
Dear Gora, I've gone through carefully letter by letter and checked the whole keyboard. By so doing, I've found a few more bugs. With a little luck, this will be all of them. Final bugs: 1) "I" and "ee" should have the same effect of creating "ई " and ई -kaar, but now only "I" is doing it. "I"

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi and Bengali Baraha etc

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
nada also. > W ill you forward software to me to test using LiveCD ubuntu and > feedback to > you? > -sriranga(74yrsold) > > On 8/14/07, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That will be really good if you would like to help testing. I > do not >

Re: [ubuntu-in] Is there a comprehensive list of media codecs required and other problems

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 01:10 -0700, Onkar Shinde wrote: > 1. Go through page http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats > very patiently and you will have all your problems solved except VCD. > 2. The VCD plugin for gstreamer was not ported till recently from 0.8 > to 0.10. So for now user m

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Bengali Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
I have been testing the Bengali version of Baraha which you provided, Gora. It appears to have the identical bugs which the Hindi version had-- that is, the bugs I pointed out in my previous letter. Bugs: 1. "M" is not working as bindi. When "M" is typed, the character "M" simply appears instead

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi and Bengali Baraha etc

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
nt. > -74yrs old > > On 8/14/07, Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kannada baraha is available in Windows in the original Baraha > application. The Linux version is under construction. > > Regards, > Swarup >

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-14 Thread Dinbandhu
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:40 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:43 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > re: hi-baraha.mim > > > > I have loaded the hi-baraha.mim and begun testing it. It works well. > > There are several bugs which I am enlisting below. As I

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi and Bengali Baraha etc

2007-08-13 Thread Dinbandhu
Kannada baraha is available in Windows in the original Baraha application. The Linux version is under construction. Regards, Swarup On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:05 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Swarup, > Kannada baraha is available or under construction? > -74yrsold > > On 8/1

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi and Bengali Baraha etc

2007-08-13 Thread Dinbandhu
I went to test the Bengali Baraha and realized I don't think I have a unicode Bengali font loaded in Ubuntu. Is there a good place to download a variety of unicode Bengali fonts for Ubuntu? Also Hindi for that matter-- the only unicode Hindi font I seem to have loaded is Lohit Hindi. It would be go

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-13 Thread Dinbandhu
re: hi-baraha.mim I have loaded the hi-baraha.mim and begun testing it. It works well. There are several bugs which I am enlisting below. As I continue testing, if I find further bugs I shall send another posting enlisting those. Bugs: 1. "M" is not working as bindi. When "M" is typed, the chara

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-12 Thread Dinbandhu
-Original Message- >From: Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Please >use wget from a terminal, i.e., in a terminal type > wget http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/hi-baraha.mim >Alternatively, if you are using Firefox, you can also go to >http://oriya.sarovar.org/download... Thank you. Tha

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-11 Thread Dinbandhu
Re: hi-baraha.mim I got it loaded. And it appears correctly as an option alongside ITRANS, Inscript, and Phonetic under Hindi within SCIM. I have tried typing with it, but it is not giving me Hindi characters. It just gives nonsense characters. Here is a sample of the characters that come when I

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-11 Thread Dinbandhu
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 21:10 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: > An updated Baraha Hindi keymap is now available at: > http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/hi-baraha.mim . Simply download the > file, copy it to /usr/share/m17n/ and restart SCIM. It should show up > as hi-baraha under the Hindi section (you w

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-10 Thread Dinbandhu
> OK, this is fine. Can you clarify one thing for me? The person I was > working with claimed that the "a" to make a complete consonant was > optional, i.e., both "k", and "ka" would make क in Hindi. Is that > correct? That confused me because I could not figure out how Baraha > would then distingu

Re: [ubuntu-in] SCIM keymap for Hindi Baraha system

2007-08-10 Thread Dinbandhu
> OK, this is fine. Can you clarify one thing for me? The person I was > working with claimed that the "a" to make a complete consonant was > optional, i.e., both "k", and "ka" would make क in Hindi. Is that > correct? That confused me because I could not figure out how Baraha > would then disting