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Tamil Linux HOWTO

V. Venkataramanan



        

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Copyright © 2002, 2003 V. Venkataramanan

Jan 2003

Revision History
Revision 1.0 2003-02-14 Revised by: venkat
Initial release, reviewed by LDP
Revision 0.9 2003-1-21 Revised by: venkat
Changes made to comply to TDLP specs.
Revision 0.8 2002-10-24 Revised by: venkat
First draft

This document will help set up a working Tamil Linux environment. This describes setting up fonts, keyboard drivers, editing and printing Tamil/bilingual documents, and working with the X Window system. The information is kept as generic as possible. When it pertains to a specific distribution (say RedHat or Debian), it is explicitly noted.

Table of Contents
1. About this HOWTO
1.1. Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO
1.2. Feedback
1.3. Copyright and License
1.4. Acknowledgements
2. Introduction
3. Fonts
3.1. TSCII
3.2. TAB
3.3. Miscellaneous fonts and encodings
4. Console Tamil
5. X Window
5.1. Installing fonts
5.2. Bitmapped fonts
5.3. TrueType fonts
5.4. Other Font Servers
6. Keyboard Drivers
6.1. tamil_kmap
6.2. tamilvp
7. KDE
7.1. Getting Localization Files
7.2. Choosing a Tamil locale
7.3. Choosing Tamil fonts for GUI
7.4. KDE Miscellaneous
8. GNOME
9. Printing
9.1. L A T E X
9.2. Postscript
9.3. PDF
10. Word Processors, Office Packages
11. Viewing Web pages
12. Pango
13. Miscellaneous
A. Appendix of Tamil Font Encodings
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