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| Welcome to DV Editor Help |
| General Information. |
| About the Toolbar and Controls. |
| How to create a new Document. |
| How to open an existing document. |
| How to Transliterate words and create
Malayalam document. |
| What is Quick Map windows. |
| How to attach a picture to a document. |
| How to change the font size and color. |
| How to send mail from DVEditor. |
| How to Import into Word/Word Pad or to HTML Document. |
| Character Mappings and Examples. |
| How to Type English characters. |
| How to save the document as an Image. |
| What is normal view |
General Information.
DVEditor is a Malayalam word processor from Deshavani.com. The DVEditor document can hold
any fonts of different size and color. You can also attach pictures, sounds, video clips
or any file type. DVEditor document holds all the items in a document and create a single
file. The file extension is ".Mal". You can open a valid *.mal file using
DVEditor.
In DVEditor there are two types of view. One is called Transliteration
viewand other one is called Normal view . In transliteration view mode,
DVditor is mainly divided in to two portions. The top part is the Document
Area and it holds the document. The bottom part is the Tool
Area which is used for creating Malayalam Documents in the Document Area. In Normal view mode, user can type directly in to the window
and like any word processor. User can make use of the User defined keyboard mapping for
easy and faster typing. The term "User defined keyboard mapping" means user can
set up the keyboard combination for any Malayalam character they wish to make.
The Tool Area
The Tool Area consists of
1) Typing section.
2) Malayalam Character set.
3) Utility buttons.
Typing section: is the area where you type Malayalam words or sentences
using English alphabets. (Eg foraVn
KTYilNi‹um SANm VAji you type avan
katayilninnum saadhhanam vaangi ). For more detail refer the article How to Transliterate words and create Malayalam document. Then you can click
on the Transliterate button to Transliterate it to Malayalam.
Malayalam Character set: holds most of the Malayalam alphabets and
compound characters which are commonly used for day-to-day communications. You can also
create a Malayalam document just by pressing these buttons. When you click on a button,
that character will get selected and it will display in the Document Area at the current
cursor location. In order to edit a document keep your cursor at any point where you want
to make change and press the appropriate button.
Utility buttons.
Utility buttons are a set of buttons with specific functionality. There are seven utility
buttons and they are
a) Quick Map
b) Full Map
c) Email
d) Transliterate
e) Locate Mal
f) Locate Eng
g) Help
Apart from the utility button there are two-radio button called mapping radio button. A
document can be either Full mapped or no mapped.
Go to the detailed
section of Utility button for more details.
Document Area
The top part of the DVEditor is called Document area. This is actual document holder.
Tool area and utility buttons helps to create document in the document area. Document area
is consist of characters (Malayalam,English, or any other language character), pictures,
or any other file type.
Attaching pictures and other files types.(*) Apart from creating
Malayalam documents you can also attach Pictures, sounds, video clips or any form of file.
You can also use English characters in the Document Area by selecting the appropriate
font. In order to attach any picture, either copy and paste the item to be inserted to the
Document Area, or go to Edit menu and select "Insert New Object" to insert item
to your document area. You can Either create a new document or attach an existing document
by selecting "Create New" or "Create from File".
* This operation will work only in Full Mapping mode.
Change the font. (*) You can also change the font size and color
in the document. To do that click on Format menu item and select "Font…"
sub menu item. This will invoke a font dialog box and you can select any font ,size and
color you want from that.
You can also print or preview the document directly from DVEditor. To print a document
click on File menu and select "Print" or "Print Preview" menu item.
Also you can find and replace words in DVEditor document. To find or replace words, select
the word and click on Edit menu and select "Find" or "Replace" menu
item.
* This operation will work only in Full Mapping mode. |
About the Toolbar
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| Quick Map Quick Help button will toggle (Show/Hide) the Smart Display
(popup window at the right hand side of the DVEditor). Smart Display is a help window,
which keep monitors the user’s keystroke and displays all the possible Malayalam
characters and its English map. User can also type the first character of any English map
and Smart Display list out all the Malayalam characters and their English maps.
Full Help
Full help will bring a list of full mapping of Malayalam Characters and their
corresponding English mappings.
EMail
Email button help the user to send the Email. DVEditor takes the default Email
program set up in the system. If no default email setup in the system, DVEditor help in
setup the default Email program. If there is no default email program setup in the system,
user cannot send the email directly from the DVEditor. If there is a default Email program
setup in the system, DVEditor attaches the current working file to the Email program and
open the default email window.
Transliterate
This operation will work only in No Mapping mode. User has to paste the
contents in the Typing session (English typing session) and press Transliterate button.
DVEditor will parse the whole content in the session and transliterate based on the
default rules of Character mapping.
Help
Help button will invoke the help window. If help window is already opened then
it will get in to the foreground.
Locate Mal (Locate a Malayalam Character)
This button will help the user to find the Malayalam character location of an
English map in the Typing section. User should position the cursor at any point in the
English typing section and click on "Locate Mal" button. This operation take the
user to the exact Malayalam Character corresponding to the English Map that was pointed by
the user.
This operation will work only in Full Mapping mode.
Locate Eng (Locate an English Character)
This button will help the user to find an English character location
corresponds to a Malayalam Character in the Document area. This will help the user when
the document is considerable big. When the user typed few number of pages and found an
error in the second page and in some location. Usually it will be difficult to locate the
exact English map for that Malayalam Character. But user can easily locate the English Map
position by position the cursor at any point in the Document area (Malayalam Character
displayed are) and click on "Locate Engl" button. This operation takes the user
to the exact English Character corresponding to the Malayalam character located by the
user. This operation will work only in Full Mapping mode.
Full Mapping or rough drafting
When user is in the Full mapping mode, based on what the user type in the
Typing Session the Malayalam characters will start appearing in the document area. The
user can update any part in the typing session and based on the new character entered in
the Typing Session the corresponding malayalam words will appear at the document area.
With full mapping user will have the full flexibility of typing. But full mapping
flexibility will be available in the DVEditor when the user starts a new document. If the
user manually change any contents at the document area ( Like directly delete any
malayalam character or a line from the top session) the Full mapping option will set to
"Off". Also When the user open an existing document, the system sets it to a
different Mapping status.
In Full mapping option user is not allowed to edit the Malayalam document directly at
Malayalam Document Area. Instead he can use the Locate Button to locate any English Map
for any Malayalam character and modify the Malayalam character by changing the English
Map. Also User is not allows to do the operations such as "Cut",
"Past", "Paste Special", "Insert New Object" etc in Full Map
Mode. But user can perform copy operation in full map mode. Full Map Mode is for the user
to make a rough draft.
Once the user created a rough draft, user can select "No Map" Radio button
for final editing operations. In this mode user can perform operations like
"Cut", "Past", "Paste Special", "Insert New
Object" and create a full Malayalam document.
No Mapping or final drafting
In No mapping mode User don’t have the full mapping between the whole
Malayalam document and the English wording. But the advantage of using this method is you
can edit or insert the Malayalam characters at any location in the created document. That
means, user can just place the cursor at any point in the malayalam document (In the
document area) when he started typing at the typing session the characters (No matter
where ever types at the typing session) , the malayalam characters will start appear at
that location where the user sets the cursor.
With Line Mapping whatever the user type in the typing session will start appear at the
Document area based on the cursor location. User can use the backspace key to for any
modification.
In this mode user can make the complete document out of the rough draft created by the
"Full Map" option. User can insert pictures, files, sounds or any other files
types into the Malayalam Document area. User can type directly in the Malayalam area. User
can use any other font including English directly at the Malayalam Document area. |
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General Instruction about rules for creating a
Malayalam Document.
1) To open a transliterate document go to file menu and click the "New" menu
item.
2) To open a normal vie document go to file menu and click the "Normal view"
menu item.See normal view documents for more information about
Normal
View.
Click to see a transliterate view
Click to see a normal view
DVEditor generates Malayalam characters simultanously based on the English characters
typed by the user at the typing session. The basic Malayalam character forming is based on
the following Character map table.
DV Character Map
DVEditor implements a new mapping sequence for the easy generation of Malayalam
document.
"SÆRAdRj•"
For the entire vowel sound there will be a corresponding English map based on the
conventional English usage. For example for "a" the English map will be "a". i.e. "aVieT" in malayalam will be written as
‘avite’ in English. In the similar way the Malayalam character "E" will be generated by the English
character "i". for e.g. "EVieT" in Malayalam will be written as ‘ivite’ in English. Like
that the malayalam character "C"
is generated by the character "e". "CVieT" in Malayalam will be written as ‘evite’ in English. Refer
the "DV Character Map" for the full Mapping.
VÊ«NAdRj•
There will be a unique English map for all the non-vowel
sounds in Malayalam. In the newly introduced mapping system, user needs to follow a simple
rule.
A combination of small and capital letters are used for generating these characters.
Malayalam alphabet " K"
will have an English map of ‘ka’
The next alphabet " X"
will have an English map of ‘Ka’
The next alphabet " G"
will have an English map of ‘ga’
The next alphabet " ]"
will have an English map of ‘Ga’
The next alphabet " Z"
will have an English map of ‘nga’
That same pattern will continue for all the non-vowel sounds.
In general all the " XRAdRj• (K,~,T,€,P) " will start with a small letter(use
‘k’ for ‘ K’
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‘c’ for ‘ ~’,
‘t’ for ‘ T’,
‘th’ for ‘ €’.
‘p’ for ‘ P’.)
All " a€iXRAdRj•(X,b,\,¯,F)" will start will with a Capital leter of the corresponding "XRAdRm".
All " M€u adRj• (G,J,D,¸,B) "will start with a small letter and all the "o]A‡AdRj• (],_,^,,‚)"will start with the corresponding capital
letter of the M€u and all the
"aNuNASiKAdRj• (Z,k,`,N,M)" will be a combination
of English letter.
Refer the article Full Help and Quick Map for more details.
But since its a general practice of creating a "Athi
Kharam"="Kharam" + ‘h’
Ie for " X" we
usually type as kha. For example khanam = "XNm"
DVEditor supports that combination (English map) also for creating Malayalam character.
If two Malayalam alphabets have got same English sounds, use the capital alphabet of
the English map to generate the second Malayalam alphabet.
For example " R"
and "ƒ" are
used as "ra" in English.
So DVEditor consider "ra" for " R" and "Ra" for "ƒ". Similarly for "†" and "‡" the English usage (sha) is the same. There also the same kind of rules applies.
The second character in this case determine the malayalam character. Ie if the user type
sha DVEditor reads this as "sha" and if the user type "sHa" the
DVEditor recognize it as "sHa". The reason for using the second letter as
capital in this case is to help the typing speed of the user. I.e. once the user typed sh
and found that it displayed "sha" but he want "sH", he don’t have
to delete both the character, but just one character and type the capital "H".
It helps when the user deals with huge and speedy work.
KÇsdRj•
(Combined sounds)
To generate "KÇsdRj•" used the English maps for each individual sounds to create it.
For example "ntha" is the combination of "na" and "tha".
You can create "ntha" by typing ntha.
"bDa" is the combination of "ba" "Da", so user can create
it using "bDa".
There will be a one to one mapping for every Malayalam sounds to the corresponding
English character combination. But when two different Malayalam characters has got same
English usage, DVEditor recognizes with a capital letter for the second letter.
For Example
The Malayalam word for Sunday is njayar and malayalam word for yellow is
"manja"
In English for both "nja" and "nja" the same character combination
of "nja" is using. In these situations DVEditor uses a simple standardized
technique to distinguish both characters. Use the capital letter in the second character
in the same sound string. (The capital should use for the second Malayalam character in
the alphabetical order.)
I.e. in the malayalam alphabetical nja will come before nja. For for nja user should
type nja and for nJa user should type nJa.
So for njayar user has to type njaayar
And for manja user has to type manJa.
~i–dRj•
Chillaksharangal can be created by typing the English map
followed by a space. If some one want to type the malayalam word avan, the user has to
type avan + Space Bar hit. The Space bar hit tell the DVEditor that the last word
doesn’t have a vowel at its end and the user expect a Chillaksharam at the end. If
there is any similar sound among chillaksharam, use the capital letter for the second one.
For eg: "n" is represented by "n" and "N" is represented
by "N".
I.e. when you start typing avan at the document area the malayalam characters
" aVN" will display. After
"avan" when you press Space Key or Enter key aVN automatically convert in to aVn. Because DVEditor knows that the user typed
only "avan"
aVn = avan + Space bar
The same rule will apply to get the character " m"
also. For example to get the Malayalam word "XNm" type khanam + Spacebar
XNm = khanam + Space bar
KuNiÉ .
To generate KuNiÉ, user has to use an "_" (underscore) with the character. For example
if the user want the malayalam word "aVNÉ" user has to type "avan_" this way DVEditor won’t confuse on
"n" or "NÉ"
Full Mapping or rough drafting
When user is in the Full mapping mode, based on what the user type in the
Typing Session the Malayalam characters will start appearing in the document area. The
user can update any part in the typing session and based on the new character entered in
the Typing Session the corresponding malayalam words will appear at the document area.
With full mapping user will have the full flexibility of typing. But full mapping
flexibility will be available in the DVEditor when the user starts a new document. If the
user manually change any contents at the document area ( Like directly delete any
malayalam character or a line from the top session) the Full mapping option will set to
"Off". Also When the user open an existing document, the system sets it to a
different Mapping status.
In Full mapping option user is not allowed to edit the Malayalam document directly at
Malayalam Document Area. Instead he can use the Locate Button to locate any English Map
for any Malayalam character and modify the Malayalam character by changing the English
Map. Also User is not allows to do the operations such as "Cut",
"Past", "Paste Special", "Insert New Object" etc in Full Map
Mode. But user can perform copy operation in full map mode. Full Map Mode is for the user
to make a rough draft.
Once the user created a rough draft, user can select "No Map" Radio button
for final editing operations. In this mode user can perform operations like
"Cut", "Past", "Paste Special", "Insert New
Object" and create a full Malayalam document.
No Mapping or final drafting
In No mapping mode User don’t have the full mapping between the whole
Malayalam document and the English wording. But the advantage of using this method is you
can edit or insert the Malayalam characters at any location in the created document. That
means, user can just place the cursor at any point in the malayalam document (In the
document area) when he started typing at the typing session the characters (No matter
where ever types at the typing session) , the malayalam characters will start appear at
that location where the user sets the cursor.
With Line Mapping whatever the user type in the typing session will start appear at the
Document area based on the cursor location. User can use the backspace key to for any
modification.
In this mode user can make the complete document out of the rough draft created by the
"Full Map" option. User can insert pictures, files, sounds or any other files
types into the Malayalam Document area. User can type directly in the Malayalam area. User
can use any other font including English directly at the Malayalam Document area.
Quick Help
Quick Help button will toggle (Show/Hide) the Smart Display (popup window at
the right hand side of the DVEditor). Smart Display is a help window, which keep monitors
the user’s keystroke and displays all the possible Malayalam characters and its
English map. User can also type the first character of any English map and Smart Display
list out all the Malayalam characters and their English maps.
Full Help
Full help will bring a list of full mapping of Malayalam Characters and their
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How to create a new Document
(1) Open DVEditor, by default a new document will open for you
(2) If you want to work with more than a document at a time
(3) Go to File menu
(4) Click on the menu item New. This action will create a new document for you. |
How to open an existing document
(1) Open DVEditor
(2) Go to File menu
(3) Click on the menu item Open
(4) In the file open dialog box, select the file to be opened |
How to transliterate words and
create Malayalam document.
(1) Open DVEditor
(2) Create a new document or open an existing document
(3) Type the malayalam words in English (eg: "pooram" for PÇRm) Detailed listing of
Character sets and mapping has given below.
(4) Click on transliterate button.
(5) Translated malayalam words will appears in the Document Area.
(6) You can also create a malayalam document by pressing Malayalam Characters
provided in the Tool Area. |
How to Import into Word/Word Pad or
to HTML Document.
(1) Create the Document.
(2) Go to File Menu.
(3) Select the "Save As HTML..." for import the file in to HTML or "Save As
WordPad Document..." to import the file in to Word/WordPad format.
(4) Type the file name in the Save Dilaog Box and Click Save Button to Import the
document.
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Normal window. and user defined key mapping
Users how knows typing and can type fast will prefer to type directly than try to type
in a different window like how they do in Transliteration mode. In Normal window mode,
user can type directly in to the window and like any word processor. User can make use of
the User defined keyboard mapping for easy and faster typing. The term "User defined
keyboard mapping" means user can set up the keyboard combination for any Malayalam
character they wish to make.
User can setup the keyboard mapping using DVEditor's mapping window.
User can open mapping window either by using the menu View / User Map or click on the tool
bar menu item with a symbol "M" on it.
Mapping Window: DVEditor's mapping window allow the user to map between malayalam
character and English characters. The dats in this window is displayed in three columns.
The column headings are a) Mal Char b) Ctrl Char and c) Eng Char.
a) Mal Char : Stands for Malayalam character. In this column all the malayalam characters
available in the DVMalayalam font will displayed.
b) Ctrl Char : Stand for Control character. There are three possible values for this
filed. 1) None 2) Control 3) Alt. These value this filed is not "None", that
means prior to use the English map, user has to press either the "Control" key
or the "Alt" key in the key board. Also The Control/Alt status will displayed on
the Quick Map window. In order to cancel the effect of Control or Alt, user has to press
the key again.
c)c) Eng Chars: Stands for the English map for the Malayalam character in the row.
Here there is few examples for the combination of characters.
| Mal Char |
Ctrl Char |
Eng Chars |
| a |
None |
a |
| I |
None |
A |
| A |
Alt |
a |
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Control |
pp |
| { |
Control |
kk |
| D |
None |
d |
| ¸ |
Alt |
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Using Edit Button
Select a Malayalam Character by the mouse click in the Mapping window. When user
select a character that row will get highlighted.
Then click the Edit bottom. Upon clicking on the Edit button, A List Box will appear on
the "Ctrl Char" field and an edit box will appear on the "Eng Chars"
column. The list box has got three values. "None","Control" or
"Alt". If user want to set any control character for the map, can select from
this list box. And user can enter the English Map on the Edit box appear on the "Eng
Chars" column.
Double click on a character
User can also edit the values by double click on any characters and
follow the steps mentioned above.
Mapping information between Malayalam characters and English characters will be saved
in a mapping file. The extension for this file will be "MAP". When the user open
the mapping window, it tried to load previous user saved map file, if it exist. If the
user haven’t saved the mapping file, then mapping window will open the file
"defaultMap.map", which will be in the DVEditor installed directory. If there is
no mapping file either in the system Mapping window will open a default template and user
has to set up all the mapping values for each malayalam characters.
User can This window will show 16 characters at each time. User can use User can
navigate to other characters using the navigator buttons ( Next, Prev,Last,First) or using
the Slider Control which can use to locate any Malayalam character for editing.
About the Buttons and functionality of the in the Mapping Window
- Next Button.
Mapping window will show next 16 characters in the window. If there is no 16 characters
left, it shows the last 16 characters.
- Prev Button.
Mapping window will show previous 16 characters in the window. If there is no 16
characters left, it shows the first 16 characters.
- First Button
First button will display first 16 characters of the mapping file.
- Last Button
First button will display Last 16 characters of the mapping file.
- Duplicate Button
If the user want to have two maps for a particular character user can create another
row by pressing the duplicate button. For that user need to select one row and press the
duplicate button. User needs to save the "map" file if they want to use it
again. For saving user can press Save Button.
- Delete Button
If the user want to delete a key map from the file, select a row and press delete
button to delete it. But user need to save the file they don’t want that map to be
used again.
- Edit Button.
If the user want to edit a map, first user has to select a character and then press the
edit button.
- Close Button
If the user has to close the Mapping window, press the Close button.
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Type English characters
In transliteration view
In transliteration map mode user can create English characters, after typing an
"#" character. Once the user types a "#" character DVEditor know that
the user is trying to create an English character. So after a # symbol, whatever the user
types will appear as a English characters. To stop the English letters and back to
Malayalam character, press "#" again. In general if the user types any thing in
between two ## will appear as English characters.
If the user type #kollam# in transliteration mode,
in Document area "kollam" will appear. But
if the user jut type "kollam" in
transliteration mode the malayalam world "eKA–m" will appear.
If the user is in transliteration window and user has selected "No Mapping" mode
then user can directly type English characters in the document area. For that first user
has to select an English using the menu Format/Font or the Font button in the toolbar.
Then start typing directly on the Document area.
If the user want to type English in between the Malayalam document, change the font using
the menu Format/Font or the Font Button. If the font is set to any English for then
English characters will appear in the window.
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Save the document as an Image
From DVEditor version 2.2, the software can import the image in to a Bitmap(.bmp) file.
If the document is of multiple pages, there will be one image for each page will created.
DVEditor will ask for only one name and will create .bmp files with name appended with
numbers.
For example if the user tries to save a three page document, upon selecting save as
image utility DVEditor will ask for the file name to be saved. If the user selected a name
c:/temp/mypoem.bmp at the end of the operation there will be three images created and they
are
c:/temp/mypoem.bmp
c:/temp/mypoem2.bmp
c:/temp/mypoem3.bmp
And there will be a popup window comes with these image names listed on it. User can
select any image from it and press the button "Open File" to open the bmp file. |
What is Quick Map windows
Quick Help button will toggle (Show/Hide) the Smart Display (popup window at the right
hand side of the DVEditor). Smart Display is a help window, which keep monitors the
user’s keystroke and displays all the possible Malayalam characters and its English
map. User can also type the first character of any English map and Smart Display list out
all the Malayalam characters and their English maps.
In the normal view mode Quick Map window also shows the Control character status
on the top of the window. When the user press the key "Alt" once the Quick Map
window will display
"Alt On" It will display the same massage
until the user press the "Alt" key again or the "Control Key". When
the user presses the control key once the status display will change to "Control On". This way user can keep track of the status
of the Control/Alt key. |
Normal view image
transliterate view image  |
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