Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Enable Gujarati Phonetic in Openoffice Ubuntu 8.10

As we know both Ubuntu and Openoffice have a good support for different Indian Languages like Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil, etc.

But it has always been a question on how to enable the phonetic support with SCIM (smart common input method)

Below are the steps for enabling the support for phonetic / inscript keyboard support in openoffice 2.4 on ubuntu 8.10

Step 1 : Install the language support
go to System --> Administrator --> Language Support
(from the list select gujarati or any language you want support for)
click on the apply button below (This will install the required packages)

Step 2 : Starting Input method services for Gujarati, etc languages
go to System --> Preferences --> SCIM Input method setup
select Global Setup under IMEngine in the left pane
in the right pane select the required language
(You can disable unwanted languages)

Step 3 : Enabling scim for all text editors and openoffice documents
Edit /etc/profile and paste the following code at the end of file

# SCIM
export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
scim -d

Restart the system

Step 4 : Start typing in Gujarati, etc language
Start Openoffice writer
find a small keyboard icon in notification area (generally top pannel)
click with left button on it and select the appropriate language

Start typing in the page area and enjoy....

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Gujarat Board - Introduction to Computers

Dear Computer Teachers,
As we know there are two lessons based on scripting in Standard 12th Gujarat board. below you can find links for solved lab exercises for your reference to effectively guide your students for same.

how to download :
Select the below link copy and paste it in to addressbar of your web browser open the page to download the respective script

Linux & Open Source - Standard XII - Solutions for Lab Exercise Chapter 13 & 14
Lesson No. 13 [Problem - 1]
http://rapidshare.com/files/274582939/script1.sh.html
Lesson No. 13 [Problem - 2]