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>Tamil Linux HOWTO</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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>Tamil Linux HOWTO</H1
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NAME="AEN4"
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>V. Venkataramanan</A
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HREF="mailto:venkat@tamillinux.org"
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>venkat@tamillinux.org</A
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>D Sivaraj - </B
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>Initial conversion from LaTeX to Docbook XML</SPAN
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>Copyright © 2002, 2003 V. Venkataramanan</P
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> Jan 2003
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 1.0</TD
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>2003-02-14</TD
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>Revised by: venkat</TD
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>Initial release, reviewed by LDP</TD
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>Revision 0.9</TD
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>2003-1-21</TD
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>Revised by: venkat</TD
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>Changes made to comply to TDLP specs.</TD
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>Revision 0.8</TD
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>2002-10-24</TD
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>Revised by: venkat</TD
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>First draft</TD
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> This document will help set up a working Tamil Linux environment. This describes setting up fonts, keyboard drivers, editing and printing Tamil/bilingual documents, and working with the X Window system. The information is kept as generic as possible. When it pertains to a specific distribution (say RedHat or Debian), it is explicitly noted.
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="x36.html"
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>About this HOWTO</A
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>1.1. <A
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>Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN43"
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>Feedback</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN47"
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>Copyright and License</A
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>1.4. <A
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HREF="x36.html#AEN53"
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>Acknowledgements</A
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>2. <A
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>Introduction</A
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>3. <A
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>Fonts</A
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>TSCII</A
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>TAB</A
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>3.3. <A
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HREF="x63.html#AEN87"
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>Miscellaneous fonts and encodings</A
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>4. <A
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>Console Tamil</A
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>5. <A
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>X Window</A
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>Installing fonts</A
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>5.2. <A
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HREF="x98.html#AEN109"
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>Bitmapped fonts</A
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>TrueType fonts</A
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>Other Font Servers</A
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>Keyboard Drivers</A
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>6.1. <A
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>tamil_kmap</A
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>6.2. <A
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>tamilvp</A
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>KDE</A
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>Getting Localization Files</A
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>Choosing a Tamil locale</A
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>Choosing Tamil fonts for GUI</A
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>KDE Miscellaneous</A
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>GNOME</A
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>Printing</A
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>Postscript</A
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>Pango</A
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>Appendix of Tamil Font Encodings</A
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