Extended Editing

Apart from generating Tamil text in its own interface, Azhagi helps you to generate Tamil text in ANY external (i.e. other than Azhagi) windows application (say Microsoft Word) too.

Azhagi provides a great degree of flexibility in its keymapping features that it becomes a highly tricky thing to simulate all of them during 'Direct typing in an external application'. Yet, this tricky thing has been achieved successfully but provided as options (Extended Editing and Extended Mode) since we found in our testing that some applications in Win9X/ME systems do not respond well to these 2 features. So, users of this OS can always keep these 2 options unticked for applications which do not respond to these options. Absolutely no harm results by keeping them unticked. They are 'extended' facilities and not required for normal typing operations.

'Extended' as its name suggests is an extended facility and its unique to Azhagi. This is not required for normal typing operation and it need not be kept ticked.

'Extended Editing' does nothing but this. i.e. for ex: if you mistakenly type " «ù÷ Åó¾÷ " in an 'external application' (say MS-Word) and wish to correct it, then you can move the cursor to position it after 'ù' and type 'a' and «ù÷ will change to «Å÷. Similarly, you can move the cursor to position it after '¾' and type 'a' and Åó¾÷ will change to Åó¾¡÷. If your OS gives problems, you can keep 'Extended Editing' unticked. Then, to move back and change ù to Å, you have to delete ù and type 'va' afresh. Thats the difference. When you have started typing fast, you may not require the need to go back and edit often.

1. Whenever an application seems to get locked during 'Extended Editing', just press 'F10' again or keep pressing 'Ctrl-F10' and the lock will be released. You can press 'Ctrl-Esc' or 'Ctrl-Alt-Delete -> CANCEL' also to release the lock.

2. Once you identify that a particular application does not respond well to 'Extended Editing' or gets locked sometimes, use the Titles/Options Editor to make the application avoid 'Extended Editing' permanently.