On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 23:44 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: [...] > ok, I've installed it, seemingly successfully. > > But I do not understand how to use what you've given above in the test > instructions. If I type something in Open Office in Hindi, and then open > a terminal and type > > remap_lang -i Devanagari -o Bengali < infile > outfile > > How will terminal know to apply this command to the file which is open > in Open Office. Doesn't there need to be something which specifies what > the "infile" is ie where terminal should look for the text which it is > to transliterate? And then, where will the outfile be? Is there going to > be another file expressly created by terminal, in which the output is to > be found?
At the moment, the script deals only with text files, though it could be extended to OpenOffice without too much difficulty. Thus, if you want to apply the command to a file that you have created in OpenOffice, you will need to first export it as text. In OpenOffice, go to the File menu, and choose "Save As". In the pop-up dialog, choose File Type to be Text Encoded (.txt), enter a file name, say "hindi", and click Save. Choose Character Set to be Unicode (UTF-8), and click OK. This will create "hindi.txt" as a UTF-8 encoded file. Then, from the terminal run, remap_lang -i Devanagari -o Bengali < hindi.txt > bengali.txt This will create the transliterated file, bengali.txt, in Bengali. You can open this in gedit, or OpenOffice. If there is sufficient interest, I can consider making the transliteration script into an OpenOffice plugin, but not just now. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
