Online Galatta - NHM Writer - Tamil typing simplified

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NHM Writer can be downloaded from their home page http://www.nhmwriter.co.in for free.
Best things first.

NHM Writer modifies your regional settings to India and language to Tamil without Windows XP CD, which means you need not struggle in enabling 'Unicode'.
NHM Writer is a 'light' software that weighs around just 860KB.
Unlike 'Azhagi', NHM Writer enables you to "Hot typing" which means you can write Tamil in any website, mails like (Yahoo!, Hotmail, GMail, MS Outlook), Chat applications (Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk) and wherever the text areas are there.
NHM Writer comes with another application "NHM Convertor', which happens to convert the Tamil fonts form various formats like TSCII to Unicode, so that you can read Tamil articles without installing additional fonts.

Installing NHM Writer

1. Download the software and install it as usual.
2. The software will prompt for a system restart to modify the regional settings.
3. The default option is that NHM Writer will be starting along with the Windows OS.

Writing using NHM Writer.

You can find the NHM Writer in a gray bell icon t your status bar. Right clicking it will give further settings options, Keyboard preview and a left click will enable the keyboard layout for typing. You can enable it by using Keyboard shortcuts also (Alt+0, Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3, Alt+4) in this case.
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General Typing using NHM Writer
- Alt+0 - Turns off the Tamil typing
- Alt+1 - Enable Tamil 99 Unicode
- Alt+2 - Enables Tamil Phonetic Unicode
- Alt+3 - Enables Tamil OldTypewriter Unocode
- Alt+4 - ENables Tamil Bhamani Unicode

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How to write:-

1. First place the cursor in the application where you want to type. Then left click the 'gray bell icon' and enable the "Tamil phonetic Code". Alternatively you can use 'Alt+2' to evoke the Tamil phonetic thing.
2. Type as usual. Please see the following videos for typing in various applications like Google Talk, Internet, Wordpad and MS WOrd.
3. Only care that has to be taken while using notepad is that you choose "Unicode" instead of "ANSI" while saving the file. Else all your efforts will be spoiled with garbled fonts. Thats it.

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Internet / Chat Typing using NHM Writer

Just unleash your creative force to write in Tamil. No need to worry about extra efforts because I have noticed that almost all of we Tamil people type Tamil in English fonts during chats. Now the recipient can read in Tamil itself.

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Using NHM Convertor:-
{mosimage}Why we need NHM COnvertor? Infact NHM Convertor is an optional tool, which you can use to convert the "garbled fonts" to readable Unicode format. Before Windows XP that supported the Unicode format, the applications needed specific language fonts to be installed in the recipient system. Else the recipient cannot be able to read the output. So may websites started using 'Dynamic fonts" concept e.g kumudam.com / vikatan.com, which is out of our scope now. Such contents can be read in the browser but can't be copied and pasted to other applications, similarly the contents of Tamil docments in MS Word cannot be copied and pasted in blogsites. Thats were the NHM Unicode convertor comes into the picture.
Just copy the non-Unicode contents into the text box of NHM Unicode convertor, press Convert, you are done with. See the video below for example.

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Conversion by using NHM Converter
Welcome changes. இணையத்தில் ஆங்கிலத்துக்கு அடுத்து அதிகம் வலைமனைகள் இருப்பது தமிழில் என்று ஒரு புள்ளிவிவரம் கூறுகிறது. தமிழில் எழுதப்படும் ‘ப்ளாகுகளை' படிக்கும்போது, தமிழ் இனி மெல்ல சாகும்' என்ற கவிஞரின் வருத்தத்தில் பெருமளவு பயம் மாத்திரமே, நனவு இல்லை என்ற எண்ணம் தோன்றுகிறது. இணையத்தில் தமிழை பீடுநடையிடவிட்டு வருங்கால சந்ததிக்கும் தமிழை காத்து பரிசளிப்போம்.