
Locale setting: choose "Dzongkha" if you want Tibetan digits to be used for automatic page numbering, list numbering and heading numbering.Choose: Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages… Windows 2000/XP users should follow the instructions: Updating Uniscribe for Tibetan Unicode Use In Windows to enable operating system level support for Tibetan.ĭownloading and installing OpenOffice Enabling Complex Text Layout (CTL) in OpenOffice.ġ. Before proceeding with the steps outlined below, all users must ensure that they have operating system support for Tibetan Unicode enabled, at least one OpenType Tibetan font installed and a suitable Wylie input method or Tibetan keyboard installed. Please read the article Tibetan Unicode Installation first. It has already been fully localized for Dzongkha (menus, dialogues, help files, etc.) - and a Tibetan localization project is underway. is particularly useful for text-input projects in Asia since it comes free of charge. It is truly cross-platform since it runs on MS Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OSX (currently using X11 windowing environment, a native "Aqua" version of is under development), and several other operating systems. also comes with a built-in PDF writer contributed by Adobe. xls, etc.) The native file format of is a zipped version of the OpenDoc format - an open standards based XML file format. will directly read and write Microsoft Office format files (.doc. Of course it takes those who have spent many years working with other software packages some time to get used to. In the opinion of this writer it, is in no way inferior to commercial products like the Microsoft Office suite, in fact it is easier for working with Tibetan script than all versions of MS Office prior to MS Office 2007. contains powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database applications as well as a simple draw program and and equation editor.

is a free and open source Office applications suite, originally developed by Sun Microsystems, which works very well with Tibetan.

3 Downloading and installing OpenOffice.
