Linux and Web Development

How to input Romanized Pali and Sanskrit in Openoffice.org?

It works for both Opeonoffice 2.04 and Openoffice.org 3 (tested under Ubuntu 8.04, Oct. 15, 2008)

The easiest way is to use Alt key, for example, press Alt+a = ā
However, Openoffice does not allow you assign Alt key as a shortcut.

Use Alt key to input Pali

1). Download AltKeyHandler_Pali.odt and save it at your desktop.

2). Open Openoffice and import above macro file.

3). do the following
1.Tools > Customize ... > Events
In the events list, select “Create Document” and click Assign macro
2.In the Macros list box: Click “My Macros”, futher click “AltKeyHandler”, then select “AltKeyHandler”.
4.In the listbox “Macro name”, select SetupAltKeyHandler.
5.Click OK

6.Repeat the same procedure for "Open Document" in the events list.

Just make sure you save it in OpenOffice.org. 

4) How to type Pali in Openoffice writer

Alt key + a =ā
Alt key + A=Ā
Alt key + s=ś
Alt key + S=Ś
Alt key + w=ṣ
Alt key + W=Ṣ
Alt key + m=ṃ
Alt key + M=ṁ
Alt key + j=ñ
Alt key + J=Ñ
Alt key + k=ṅ
Alt key + n=ṇ
Alt key + i=ī
Alt key + u=ū
Alt key + t=ṭ
Alt key + r=ṛ
Alt key + h=ḥ
Alt key + d=ḍ
Alt key + l=ḷ

4). In openoffice writer do the following and set any keys if you wish to change

Control + Alt + a

If the above method does not work for you, use this method

The easiest way to install the macro for Openoffice 2.*, just download the attached file: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/files/user.tar_.gz

And extract the gz file
and move/merge the two folders to /home/user*/.openoffice.org2/user

For Openoffice 3, download

http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/files/openoffice3user.zip

And extract the zip file and move/merge the two folders to /home/user*/.openoffice/3/user

How to use scim to input Pali

see here: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/109