Re: [ubuntu-in] Typing in Indian Languages

2011-07-04 Thread Vividh Aditya
Thanks Rajiv. That was one big hindrance I was finding with BolNagri. Simple things sometimes look so complicated. :) Regards, Surender On 07/04/2011 08:18 PM, Rajiv Ranjan wrote: use right alt+ shift+e for ऐ and right alt+ shift+o for औ, i.e. you have to switch to level 3 (R alt+ is the defau

Re: [ubuntu-in] Typing in Indian Languages

2011-06-23 Thread Vividh Aditya
I installed some keyboard layouts and would prefer India Hindi Bolnagri, which is very similar to Takhti. Found it easy. Yet I cannot get to write for example "Ainak/aidee" or "Aurat/aukhlee" The keyboard layout shows E and O, assigned, but only allow to put the maatra rather than the akshar it

Re: [ubuntu-in] need desktop search tool

2011-06-22 Thread Vividh Aditya
Thanks for informing about Recoll. Till now I had been using deskbar-applet. It does a little bit of calculations as well and can be used to launch programs too. Never searched for Indic fonts though with it. Will try Recoll. While, we are on the topic of Indic Fonts, is there any text editor

Re: [ubuntu-in] alternative to open office? (Sriranga(78yrsold))

2011-06-09 Thread Vividh Aditya
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Kaustav Das Modak mailto:kaustav.dasmo...@yahoo.co.in>> wrote: Hi, Thanks for pointing out Lotus Symphony. Its license, however, is proprietary and that is enough to favour LibreOffice :) Thanks. Kaustav On 9 June 2011 17:35, Vi

Re: [ubuntu-in] alternative to open office? (Sriranga(78yrsold))

2011-06-09 Thread Vividh Aditya
Hi all, Another alternative to OpenOffice is IBM Lotus Symphony which is based on OpenOffice, but much better in aesthetics than Libre or OpenOffice. Just try it to believe it. Regards, Surender On Thursday 09 June 2011 05:30 PM, ubuntu-in-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Re: alternative to