[Buddha-l] OOo (was: Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?)

[Christopher Fynn]

Margaret Gouin wrote:

> How are Ubuntu/Open Office on diacritics and scripts (specifically Chinese
> and Tibetan)?

OpenOffice.org is very good with Tibetan - specifically it will break 
Tibetan words when line wrapping correctly after tsheg character (Which 
MS Word does not do) - it will also sort lists of Tibetan words in 
Tibetan dictionary order, and switch easily between Roman, Tibetan and 
Chinese scripts using whatever fonts you have defined as default for 
these scripts. (Tibetan font should be defined as default for "CTL 
text", Chinese font as default for "Asian text"). The OpenOffice 
equivalents of Excel and Power Point also work with Tibetan.

If using OpenOffice.org on Windows XP/2000 you will need to enable 
"complex script" support and update your Windows usp10.dll file to a 
version which has support for Tibetan script.

For diacritics - use a font like SIL Gentium or Linux Libertine for 
Roman script: -
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium>
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>

For Tibetan script you can use my Jomolhari font: - 
<http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibetan/fonts/jomolhari.html>

For Chinese:- <http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/>
<http://wiki.debian.org.hk/w/Where_can_I_find_fonts_for_GNU/Linux>

For Devanagari:-
<http://www.sanskritweb.org/cakram/>

Free & open source fonts for many other scripts are listed at:
<http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/>

- Chris