<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Tamil Linux HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="About this HOWTO" HREF="x36.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Tamil Linux HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >V. Venkataramanan</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><br> <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:venkat@tamillinux.org" >venkat@tamillinux.org</A >></TT ><br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="othercredit" ><B >D Sivaraj - </B ><SPAN CLASS="contrib" >Initial conversion from LaTeX to Docbook XML</SPAN ></P ><P CLASS="copyright" >Copyright © 2002, 2003 V. Venkataramanan</P ><P CLASS="pubdate" > Jan 2003 <BR></P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-02-14</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: venkat</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial release, reviewed by LDP</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.9</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-1-21</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: venkat</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Changes made to comply to TDLP specs.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.8</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-10-24</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: venkat</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >First draft</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN34" ></A ><P ></P ><P > 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. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x36.html" >About this HOWTO</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN38" >Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN43" >Feedback</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN47" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="x36.html#AEN53" >Acknowledgements</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="x58.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="x63.html" >Fonts</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="x63.html#AEN72" >TSCII</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="x63.html#AEN83" >TAB</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="x63.html#AEN87" >Miscellaneous fonts and encodings</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="x90.html" >Console Tamil</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="x98.html" >X Window</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="x98.html#AEN101" >Installing fonts</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="x98.html#AEN109" >Bitmapped fonts</A ></DT ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="x98.html#AEN135" >TrueType fonts</A ></DT ><DT >5.4. <A HREF="x98.html#AEN266" >Other Font Servers</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6. <A HREF="x275.html" >Keyboard Drivers</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="x275.html#AEN282" >tamil_kmap</A ></DT ><DT >6.2. <A HREF="x275.html#AEN298" >tamilvp</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >7. <A HREF="x304.html" >KDE</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="x304.html#AEN307" >Getting Localization Files</A ></DT ><DT >7.2. <A HREF="x304.html#AEN318" >Choosing a Tamil locale</A ></DT ><DT >7.3. <A HREF="x304.html#AEN333" >Choosing Tamil fonts for GUI</A ></DT ><DT >7.4. <A HREF="x304.html#AEN341" >KDE Miscellaneous</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="x349.html" >GNOME</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="x372.html" >Printing</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="x372.html#AEN375" >L<SUP >A</SUP >T<SUB >E</SUB >X</A ></DT ><DT >9.2. <A HREF="x372.html#AEN386" >Postscript</A ></DT ><DT >9.3. <A HREF="x372.html#AEN395" >PDF</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10. <A HREF="x402.html" >Word Processors, Office Packages</A ></DT ><DT >11. <A HREF="x406.html" >Viewing Web pages</A ></DT ><DT >12. <A HREF="x415.html" >Pango</A ></DT ><DT >13. <A HREF="x419.html" >Miscellaneous</A ></DT ><DT >A. <A HREF="a437.html" >Appendix of Tamil Font Encodings</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x36.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >About this HOWTO</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >