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Installing Malayalam TTF fonts in GNU/Linux

Open the file browser(nautilus or Konqueror). Type fonts:/// in the addressbar. Paste the font you need to install there. Done!

SCIM modules for transliteration based input

Evooraan's Mozhi

This module follows Mozhi scheme.

As root,

wget http://evuraan.googlepages.com/ml-mozhi.png -O /usr/share/scim/icons/ml-mozhi.png

wget http://evuraan.googlepages.com/mozhi.20080114.bin.txt -O /usr/share/scim/tables/mozhi.bin

Add to /etc/environment:

export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"

Rrestart your X (by Control+Alt+BackSpace) and you should be all set.

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Swanalekha

This module follows a scheme that is very close to Mozhi transliteration scheme. However couple of letters differ in mapping.

[ [ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/Swanalekha More Details...] ]

Installing Mozhi Keyman

• 1. Install SCIM 1.2.2 or later

     1. 1. for .deb files

        2. other SCIM downloads

        3. install libscim, scm-gtk-module and scim-devel packages

  2. Install KMFL (keyman runtime) version 0.8 or later

• • • 1. KMFL binaries as RPMs and DEBs

      2. install kmflcomp, libkmfl, libkmflcomp, libkmfl-dev and scim-kmfl-imengine

• 3. Download Keymap and extract it. Copy *.kmn to ~/.scim/kmfl and mozhi.bmp to ~/.scim/kmfl/icons (create these directories if it does not exist)

  4. Restart SCIM (best option would be restarting X by pressing CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE)

  5. Use CTRL + SPACE to active SCIM, select Mozhi Keymap from other keyboards section.

Pango

Suruma has an excellent Pango patch that is known to fix the common chillu rendering issue.

Building Varamozhi Editor in GNU/Linux

Say, you are using Kerala font & unicode. Follow these steps:

• 1. You should have the packages: build-essential, m4, bison, flex, and perl/Tk

  2. You should have installed ML-TTKarthika font and AnjaliOldLipi Malayalam Unicode font.

  3. Download and explode Varamozhi Source

  4. cd varamozhi

  5. make FONT=karthika

  6. make FONT=unicode

  7. Start varamozhi as: perl gui/editor.pl

You can browse varamozhi source tree in online cvs. If you need to modify build parameters, for example, like changing the build scheme from Mozhi to ITrans, change the SCHEME variable to itrans in Makefile.in file.

Remove -fforce-mem from the Makefile.in, in case of related compilation error.

Your own online Varamozhi Editor

Required packages:

• • php5

  • bison

  • flex

Say, in Ubuntu, 'bison' is not available. Then install 'bison' by the command sudo apt-get install bison.

Assuming /var/www is the root HTTP directory of your site http://www.mysite.com; follow these steps:

• 1. Click on Varamozhi Source

  2. Wait 15 seconds to start the download

  3. Save the file in /tmp

  4. Change directory to /var/www

  5. Open the package by the command gunzip < /tmp/varamozhi_editor_src_1.07.01.tgz | tar -xvf -

  6. Change directory to /var/www/varamozhi

  7. Compile it for Unicode by the command make FONT=unicode

  8. Download following files to /var/www/varamozhi

     1. • aksharam.html

        • convert.php

        • convert-head.php

        • convert-java.php

        • font.php

        • style.php

        • utils.php

  9. Copy following file to a new directory /var/www/varamozhi/images

     1. • varamozhi-small.gif

  10. Access the online editor as http://www.mysite.com/varamozhi/convert.php

More help

• 1. smc-discuss അറ്റ് googlegroups.com മെയിലിംഗ് ലിസ്റ്റിലേക്ക് ചോദ്യം അയക്കുക

  2. irc.freenode.net ലെ #smc-project എന്ന irc ചാനല് സന്ദര്ശിക്കുക.

  3. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC എന്ന വിക്കി പേജ് സന്ദര്ശിക്കുക. ചില സോഫ്ട്വെയറുകളുടെ ഉപയോഗം അവിടെ വിവരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്

Links

• • Peringodan's Linux n Malayalam blog

  • Chintha.com FAQ

  • Malayalam Computing Portal