<quoted> > > > I am using Gnome 2.14 (openSUSE 11.0) and want to be able to type Bangla > > juktos. I can type basic characters and add vowel signs using the > > Bangladesh keyboard configured through the Gnome Keyboard Indicator. > > However, the only way to insert juktos seems to be through OOo Writer's > > Insert/Special Character - which is far too tedious to use in practice. > Can > > anyone advise on there's a trick to get Juktps that I have hopefully > missed? > > What do you mean by "juktos"? Conjuncts, i.e., combination > of consonants? This is normally done with the halant key, > which seems to correspond to 'g' in the Bangladesh/Bangladesh > layout for the GNOME keyboard layout. > > However, this is with GNOME 2.24 on Ubuntu 8.10. GNOME 2.14 > is rather old, and I cannot check which layout is used there. > There should also be a "India Bengali" layout under India, > which uses the Inscript standard that I am more familiar > with. There, the halant key is 'd', so that > ka + halant + ka == ? + ? + ? == ??? would be input as 'kdk'. > </quoted>
I can't insert an image of what I am getting in this email, so I include a link to an image showing what happens when I try use the 'g' key as the 'halant' key as described in the above message. The d key doesn't seem to do anything special. http://www.switchedon.org/images/juktos-attempt.png As you can see, the character created is far from that desired. I think what we mean by a Juktos character is the same as a conjunct, but I cannot write Bangla, but am asking these questions on behalf of a colleague who needs to type it. The font characters available are not actually rich enough to include the conjunct/juktos(?) characters, so could that limitation be the problem? What open source font should I be using? I have Lohit Bengali installed (amongst others that support some Bangla). I am using the Gnome Bangladesh keyboard. The version of Gnome is actually 2.22.1. Thanks for any suggestions! Richard _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
