Hi :) You can find the right path by looking in Tools - Options - LibreOffice/General - Paths There 'should' be a line for fonts in there. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sat, 17/9/11, elcico2001 एल्चिको <elcico2...@yahoo.it> wrote: From: elcico2001 एल्चिको <elcico2...@yahoo.it> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Sanskrit? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: wins...@cs.wisc.edu Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 13:21 Il 17/09/2011 07:05, Winston Yang ha scritto: > In Writer, how can I type Indian fonts, such as Devanagari/Devanaagarii, for > Hindi or Sanskrit? > > I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Linux (Trisquel 4.5.1). > > I tried going to the following places: > > Trisquel: System > Administration > Language Support > > Writer: Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > > Thank you. > > Winston > Hello Winston, You can do the following - works for openoffice on debian 6.0, I suppose that's the same for libreoffice: * download sanskrit font sanskrit2003.ttf ( http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator2003.htm - http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip ) * copy sanskrit2003.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype (that should be the right path, but I'm not sure on your distro) * supposing you have Gnome (if you use KDE let me know), go to System --> Preferences --> Keyboard and choose the tab Disposition (that should be the english name) * click "add", choose "By Nation", select "India", click "add" again, then close the keyboard preferences window * if it doesn't appear by itself, add a keyboard indicator on the Gnome menu panel --> right clic on the panel, click "add to panel" and select "Keyboard indicator" * once you have the keyboard indicator on your panel, select indian layout, then open libreoffice writer * if the keyboard layout has changed... go back to indian again * select sanskrit 2003 font * and finally... write in sanskrit! :) Namastè! or I'd better write... नमस्ते :) -- cico ---- Icq/Licq/Gaim #175451007 Debian Powered Linux Registered User #310800 athttp://counter.li.org No retreat baby no surrender http://www.retenergie.it - coop di produttori e utilizzatori di energia da fonti rinnovabili tad evaarthamaatra-nirbhaasaM svaruupa-shuunyam iva samaadhiH Sanskrit - Realize it's the common language ;-) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
