In the following, we have provided some information that will be helpful in 
using the Ol Chiki fonts productively. However, this is not a tutorial on any 
product, and for accurate information, the users are advised to refer to 
the manual of the corresponding software, and the authors do not own any 
responsibility for any damage arising out of using the guidelines given below.

A. Deletion and Installation of Ol Chiki fonts:
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     A font is uniquely identified by its name. For example, ol_ciki_classic 
is the name of one of our font. The names of other fonts available with 
this package are ol_ciki_old, ol_ciki_optimum, ol_ciki_regular, ol_ciki_royal,
and olciki_usoro. One can install each of these fonts at the same time. 
In order to install a new version of a font, one must first delete the old 
version of the font if it does exist. The installation of a font means the 
corresponding font file is copied to some system directory (in case of 
Windows 98, it is c:\windows\fonts). Note that the name of a font is not 
the same as the name of the file that contains the font. File name 
containing the font can be changed without changing the name of the font. 
It is best to delete the old version of a font, and install a new version 
of the same font using "fonts window" available from the control panel window. 
In the following, 'click' always means 'single click'.  The following 
is a basic guideline for installing a new version of a font.

      To Open the Fonts folder:
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  (i) In Windows 98/ME, go to the fonts window by  double clicking by  using 
      left mouse button(LMB) as follows: 

      start-->settings-->control panel-->fonts. 
      
      What it means is that first click(using LMB: Left mouse button) on start,
      and then move the mouse to 'settings', and then move the mouse to control
      panel, and click (using LMB) on it. 
      
      This would give the control panel window. Here you double click(using 
      LMB) on the fonts icon, and this would give fonts window.


      In Windows XP, the sequence is start-->control panel-->fonts. 
      Click(using LMB) on start.
      Click on control panel. 

      Finally, double click(using LMB) on fonts icon, and this would give 
      fonts window.


      To Delete the Fonts:
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 (ii) After the above operation,  the names of all the fonts will be shown 
      in the fonts window. 
      
      Select all the fonts that you want to delete by keeping the control
      key pressed, and
      
      Clicking the font icons one by one using LMB. The selected fonts 
      will be shown in blue colour.

      Now click(using LMB) on the file menu of the fonts window, and then
      click(using LMB) on 'delete' submenu.

      This would delete the selected fonts, and move them to the recycle 
      bin. 

      The delete option can also be obtained by keeping the control key 
      pressed, and clicking on one of the selected fonts using right mouse 
      button(RMB).


      To reinstall the Fonts:
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(iii) Now in order to install the new version of the deleted fonts, 
      
      click(using LMB) on the file menu in the fonts window,
    
      and then click(using LMB) on 'install new font' submenu.  This would 
      give you a subwindow in a window showing a folder in the current 
      drive(C, D, or E etc.), and a  subwindow in the same window where 
      you can change the drive in the first subwindow.  

      If the Ol Chiki fonts are present in a  folder in the current drive,
      the go to the folder where  fonts are present by double clicking 
      (using LMB) on the sequence of folders leading to the folder containing
      the fonts. 

      Otherwise, first select the desired drive from the drive subwindow 
      using LMB, and then go to the desired folder as above. The list of 
      fonts available in the folder will be available in another subwindow 
      of the same window. Then if you want to install all the fonts 
      available in the folder, click(using LMB) on 'select all'. 

      However, if you want to install only some of the fonts, then select 
      only those fonts by keeping the control key pressed, and 
      clicking(using LMB) on the desired fonts in the list. Then finally 
      click(using LMB) on OK button. One can also install a new font, 
      just by dragging the font file using LMB from the folder, and 
      dropping it in the fonts window. This may  not work if the older 
      version of the font is already present.



     Installing a new font is the same as above except that step 2 will not 
be  there. Besides Msword, Openoffice,  and Pagemaker, this version of the 
Ol Chiki fonts also works correctly in another popular word processing 
software, called Abiword. Both Abiword and Openoffice are free software. All
these word processing software would give you a choice of selecting a font.
Once you have selected a font, you can start typing in using the font. The
following is a brief guideline on how to prepare a good looking document.


B. Features of a good looking document

   Conceptually, a good looking document should be easily readable, and
this can be achieved if the spacing between characters in a word is in
proper proportion to the spacing between words, and between lines. As a 
result, most word processing softwares provide facilities for adjusting

        (i)    the spacing between characters in word, 
        (ii)   the spacing between words,
        (iii)  the spacing between the lines.



    In Ol Chiki fonts, we have set the default spacing between characters
    such  that it is normally  not required to adjust it for the font sizes
    ranging from 8 to 12. 

    NOTE HERE that for font sizes below 8, this spacing may have to be 
    slightly increased, and for the font sizes above 12, this spacing 
    may have to be slightly reduced. Let us now see how these parameters 
    can be changed in Ol Chiki text.

C. Changing the font of Ol Chiki text

      All Ol Chiki fonts except olciki_usoro have the same keyboard mapping.
Hence, one can easily change the font of any part of Ol Chiki text. In
olciki_usoro, the keyboard has the same mapping except that ahad is not mapped
to any key, and the combination of five special characters with ahad are 
mapped to 1 thro' 5. The following is a basic guideline for changing the font
of any part of Ol Chiki text in most word processing software.

  (i) Select the desired part of the text by keeping the LMB pressed, and
      by moving the mouse horizontally/vertically so that the desired portion
      of the text gets selected, and then release the LMB. The selected
      portion of the text will appear darkened.

 (ii) Select the desired font from the menu where the name of the current font
      appears using LMB. Then do a single click (using LMB) on any part of the
      text. This would change the font of the selected part of the text to the
      newly selected font.
     
      Alternately,

 (ii) Click on the selected part of the text using RMB. This will give you
      font/character submenu from which the desired font can be selected.
      After this, click(using LMB) on the OK button, and this would change
      the font of the selected part of the text.
   
D. Changing the  font size of Ol Chiki text

   It is easier to edit using larger font size(say 11), but what needs to be
printed may be of smaller font size(say 9). This can be easily done as 
follows in most word processing software.

  (i) Select the desired part of the text as in C(i) above.

 (ii) From the menu where the current font size appears, select the desired
      font using LMB. Then click(using LMB) on any part of the text, and this
      would change the font size of the selected text to the desired value.

      Alternately,

 (ii) Click on the selected part of the text using RMB. Then a character/font
      submenu will appear. The desired font size can be selected after
      clicking(using LMB) on this submenu. Once the desired font size has 
      been selected, click(using LMB) on the OK button, and this would 
      change the font size of the selected text to the desired value.

E. Changing the spacing between the characters, and between the words

   In Abiword, there is no facility to change the spacing between characters,
and between words. In Openoffice and Msword, these spacings can only be 
changed together. In Pagemaker, these spacings can be specified independently.
In the following, basic guidelines are given for changing these spacings in
Openoffice, and Msword. 

  (i) Select the desired part of the text as in C(i) above.

 (ii) In the format menu, click(using LMB) on the character submenu. In one 
      of the submenu of the character submenu, there is a provision to change 
      spacing between characters. 

      There are three choices: normal, expanded and condensed. 
      
      Normal would give default character spacing. 

      Using expanded, one can specify by how much(including fractions) the 
      spacing between the characters should be increased. 

      Then click(using LMB) on the OK button, and this would change the spacing
      between characters in the selected part of the text. The spacing between 
      words would get adjusted accordingly. 

      The Similar steps can be taken for 'condensed' which reduces the spacing
      between characters.

      Alternately,

 (ii) Click on the selected part of the text using RMB, and this would give
      the character submenu. The remaining steps are the same as given above.

      Pagemaker:
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      In Pagemaker, the similar procedures apply. However, we need to click
      (using LMB) on the paragraph submenu. Pagemaker accepts maximum and 
      minimum values for these parameters, and uses these values to 
      dynamically adjusts these spacings.

      NOTE: It is not advisable to use kerned values for spacing between 
            characters.



F. Changing the spacing between lines

   This is supported by all word processing software, and can be done as 
   follows.

  (i) Select the desired part of the text as in C(i) above.

 (ii) From the format menu, go to the paragraph submenu by clicking(using LMB)
      on it. In Abiword, Msword, and Openoffice, the line spacing that can be
      chosen are single line, 1.5 line, double line, and multiple. After 
      selecting multiple, one can also give any value such as 1.1, 1.2, 
      1.25 etc. In Pagemaker, this value is specified slightly differently 
      as percentage of single line spacing. After specifying the desired 
      line spacing, click(using LMB) on the OK button, and this would 
      change the line spacing of the selected part of the text.

      Alternately,

 (ii) Click on the selected part of the text using RMB, and this would give
      the paragraph submenu. The remaining steps are the same as given above.

   We hope that these informations would be useful, and help you to produce
beautiful looking Ol Chiki text for Santali language.
      
