You can almost immediately begin to type in Indian languages without having any previous experience in typing, but prior knowledge will be added advantage for learning further. ISM Basic has been developed to work with various Indian languages/scripts.
With this tool, you will be able to type in windows based applications such as Notepad, Wordpad, Open Office, MS Office etc. It supports Unicode version 6.0 and since it is supporting Unicode, documents thus created will be easily viewed properly on any Unicode enabled operating systems such as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. This tool is primarily for creation of documents in Indian languages. The text editing tools for MS Office, StarOffice and OpenOffice come in the form of macros. ISM v6 comes with various tools for transliteration, data conversion, dictionaries and data migration besides Indian language text editing tools such as spell checkers and Find Replace.
