In this session

Software Selection

Layout Settings

Type of Fonts

Touch typing method

Tamil Keyboard

Create Documents

Installing TTF Fonts

Installing Unicode Keyboard

Software Selection

Softwares

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Layout Specification

Layout Specification

Type of Fonts

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1. True Type Font (TTF font)

2. Unicode Font

Unicode Fonts?

A Unicode font (also known as UCS (Universal Character Set) font and Unicode typeface) is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world.

Unlike most conventional computer fonts, which are specific to a particular language or legacy character set and contain only a small subset of the UCS characters, these fonts attempt to include many thousands of possible glyphs, so that they can be used as a single typeface across multilingual documents

TrueType Font

TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font sizes. With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in a TrueType font.

Touch typing method

Using a touch typing technique has many advantages. Your communication with your personal computer will be faster. You will also be able to concentrate on your work more, because your typing will be nearly automatic.

Alphanumeric keyboard

Left hand Right hand

little finger A little finger ;

ring finger S ring finger L

middle finger D middle finger K

index finger F index finger J

thumb spacebar thumb spacebar

How to type fast – hand position

Tamil Keyboard

Base position for middle row and bottom row

Middle Row

index finger ... 4

middle finger ... 5

ring finger ... 6

Bottom Row

thumb ... 0

little finger ... ENTER

Healthy sitting with the keyboard

It is very important to have control over your body posture whilst sitting. It sounds pretty easy, but many people sit with a curved back or with crossed legs... Wrong sitting position can clearly damage your health. Back pain, problem with lassitude and headaches could be caused. There is much discussion about the best sitting position at the present time. There is one point of view that everybody needs a different position, because the spine is different for each person. Therefore the best sitting position has to be defined individually.

sitting with the computer

Basic rules for correct sitting position with keyboard

1. Use a chair with adjustable height. Don't use a low chair. It is always better to sit higher.

2. The angle between the side and the thigh should be around 90°; Angle between thigh and calf should be greater then 90°

3. Main backrest should start near to pelvis and pelvis should be gently pushed forwards.

4. Sit straight. There should be a space between the legs. Don't push out your chin.

5. More detailed information about the hands and their positions is described under the section typing theory.

Installing True Type Fonts

Windows XP

Windows 7

Discussion . . .

Anyway copy the particular font to Font directory.o C:\>Windows\Fonts\....

Installing Unicode Keyboard

One application (NHM Writer) that helps you write in any language, any encoding, any keyboard layout.

Write in 10 Indian languages such as◦ Tamil,

◦ Assamese, Bengali,

◦ Gujarati, Hindi,

◦ Kannada, Malayalam,

◦ Marathi, Punjabi,

◦ Sanskrit & Telugu

Converting font type

One application that helps you convert text between various encodings. Helps convert text in most known Tamil character encoding schemes from one to another.

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