Hi Donald, On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:14:22PM -0400, Donald Harbison wrote: > I'm looking for advice on the current state of transliteration support in > OpenOffice. Is anyone familiar with this issue? My Dad is a Sanskrit > scholar, now 98 years old. Some of his manuscripts were authored in > WordPerfect circa 1985 with special macros to enable him to do the > transliteration from Sanskrit to Roman alphabets prior to publication. It > appears that OpenOffice 3.0 had support for specific Unicode fonts > supporting transliteration.
You might be talking about the Graphite fonts support, a kind of smart font. But in general, transliteration does not depend on these features, but rather on a font and your system/desktop capability to support keyboard layouts. On Linux, both Gnome and KDE support keyboard layouts, so you only need a suitable font (no need to be a smart font) and simply switch the keyboard layout to type transliteration. See http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9239 Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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