Checking Keyboard and Encoding Selecting Within an
ApplicationThere are times you may want to check your current
keyboard and character set settings while you are composing Tamil
text in an application. You may want to do this without having to
right click on the minimised Anjal icon or pull down the
+Murasu menu.
To check your current keyboard and
encoding (character set) settings from within the application, hold
the Ctrl and Shift key down together and press the "~" key
(typically before the "1" key on the left). This will pop up a
status window to indicate your settings.
If you are running
Anjal2000-Pro, you can check this status from any application. Lite
users will be able to check it with Lite supported applications,
namely Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape (Composer, Navigator and
Messenger), Internet Explorer, Notepad, Murasu Editor, Murasu Mailer
and Acrobat Reader.
This is also another way of checking if
Murasu Anjal is functioning well in your computer.
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Checking the Encoding of Tamil TextSometimes you
may see text that appears gibberish (i.e. all kinds of characters
that you do not understand). At times like this, the question that
typically comes to your mind is "what font should I set the text
to?". Murasu Anjal can help you understand this.
If you are seeing this in an Anjal supported application, you may
do the following :
- Select a portion of the text. Select a few lines. The more
text
you select the more accurate the results will be.
- While the text is selected, pull down the +Murasu menu
and pick
"Check Selection" item.
- Anjal2000 will examine the text and tell you what encoding
the
selected text is in.
Anjal2000 will automatically recognise text if it is in a known
encoding, such as TSCII, TAB, Anjal or Unicode. Once you know the
encoding, you can set the font accordingly :
- TSCII - choose any font that ends with "TSC" (like
InaiMathiTSC)
- TAB - choose any font that starts with "TAB" (like
TAB_InaiMathi)
- Anjal - choose InaiMathi, InaiKathir, ArulMathi - or any other
font
that starts with "An_" (like An_Mullai)
- Unicode - choose any Unicode Tamil font (such as
AnInaiMathi_Unicode)
If you are using an application that does not have the
+Murasu menu, cut and paste the text into Notepad and perform
the above actions. Outlook Express users can find the +Murasu
Menu in the system menu (please check the previous
newsletter for details).
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Creating PDF Documents with Anjal FontsPDF (Portable Document Format) is a very popular format
for exchanging documents. There are PDF readers (Like Adobe Acrobat
Reader ) for most of the operating systems and hence a document
prepared in PDF format can be viewed practically on any computer.
Fonts can also be embedded into these documents making this a very
convenient way of sending documents where
the the recipient is
not likely to have the appropriate fonts on his
computer.
Creating PDF documents with Anjal fonts is as easy
as creating a PDF document with any font. If you are an AnjalPro
user, you may create PDF documents with all the professional quality
fonts in Anjal2000-Pro. If you have Murasu Font Pack 1, you'll have
more fonts to play with.
In order to create PDF documents,
you will need Adobe Acrobat from Adobe Systems. Visit http://www.adobe.com for details on
how you can purchase a copy of this software and create documents in
PDF format.
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2001
"Anjal vazi Inaiyam" - Buy it on-line for less than US6.00
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Tamil Internet 2001, Kuala Lumpur - Unicode to be the future
standard for Tamil
Tamil Internet 2001 conference held in
Kuala Lumpur from 26th August to 28th August 2001 resolved that
Unicode will be the future standard for Tamil and efforts should be
made to facilitate the transition from the existing 8-bit encoding
to Unicode. Please see the KL Communiqué at http://www.tamilinternet.org
or http://www.infitt.org
Anjal
2000 was one of the earliest Tamil software to provide Unicode
support. If you are running a Unicode compliant OS like Windows 2000
or Windows XP and have the Indic Language Pack installed, you
can use Anjal to create your Tamil documents in Unicode. Anjal
enhances the Unicode functionality available in these Operating
Systems by providing more fonts and the familiar Anjal keyboard
layout even when you are generating documents in Unicode.
You
can download the Unicode font pack from the files section of Anjal
group at http://groups.yahoo.com/files/anjal
(Note that you must be a member of this group - membership is
free).
We have a special group on yahoo to
support use of unicode in Anjal. Please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anjal-unicode
to subscribe
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Visit us at Tamil Internet 2001, Johor Baru - 30
September 2001We are participating in the
Tamil Internet 2001 Southern Regional Seminar and Exhibition.
30 September 2001 <>
Dewan Mawar, Johor Baru, Malaysia <> 9.00am till
5.00pm.
Please drop in and visit us and our partners
at the exhibition and take advantage of some special
offers.
Table of Contents Useful links
Anjal Pro Information
Anjal Pro in India
Anjal Quick Start
Guide
Anjal
list on Yahoogroups
Anjal Unicode
list on Yahoogroups
Anjal
Newsletter archives
Anjal Help
Tamil Internet 2001, August
2001, Kaulalumpur
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question. You may also read the previous
newsletters for more tips on using Anjal2000.
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