Hindi fonts ttf-devanagri package should be installed. Softwares supporting hindi unicode including Open Office. Once thats done you can type in Hindi in all Whenever you need to type in Hindi select theĪppropriate hindi layout. Once this is done the KDE Keyboard Layout tool shall be available in Hindi keyboard) or 'bolnagri' (if you want phonetic hindi keyboard, In the layout variants you can choose 'deva' (if you want standard This will cause a new India layout to come in active layouts on theĤ. Select India on left panel (Available layouts) and click on add.

Click on Enable Keyboards radio button.ģ. Go to Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Layout.Ģ. will mention the procedure for that incaseġ. go to properties and then add indic languages. If you want to write in Hindi/Gujrati, You need to change the input I have not tried hindi in Open Office But I will suggest you few things. > Is there any other way possible to get such typing possible? I remember before some years, I typed in Gujarati / Hindi in Open Office, however, that time I was using Fedora (perhaps version 7 or 10) on my P-III desktop. > Is there any step I miss here? Better if guided in step-by-step operations!. Though in the available fonts' list (pull down menu) it shows some fonts seemingly for indian languages (e.g., Lohit Hindi, Lohit Tamil, Lohit Gujarati, gargi, padmaa, etc.) but changing to these fonts still writes in English only!! > I wander how to get Hindi / Sanskrit / Gujarati fonts in Open Office environment.

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