Step-by-step instructions for Tamil Font installation
  For MAC Users:
   
  (a) Download the TAB-LFS-Kamban.suit.sit , TABX-Ponni.sit and TAMLKamban.sit files
   
  (b) Expand the above .sit files using Stuffit Expander.
   
  (c) Drag TAB-LFS-Kamban.suit and TAMLKamban files from desktop and Drop it to System Folder/Fonts folder.
   
  (d) reply YES when it asks if it is to be placed in the Fonts Folder.
   
  (e) Quit the Browser and launch it again
   
  (f) For Netscape 4.7x,
    -> select Preferences... form the Edit Menu  
      -> select Fonts under Appearence Option  
        -> choose User-Defined for the Encoding  
        -> choose TAB-LFS-Kamban for Variable Width Font.  
      -> Select Mail & Newsgroups  
        -> Select Display plain text messages and articles with Variable Width Font  
      -> Select Messages under Mail & Newsgroups  
        -> Select Send messages that use 8-bit Characters Using the "quoted printable" MIME encoding  
   
  (g) For Netscape 6.1,  
    -> select Preferences... form the Edit Menu  
      -> select Fonts under Appearence Option  
        -> select Fonts for User-Defined  
        -> select Proportional Sans-serif  
        -> select Serif TAB-LFS-Kamban  
        -> select Sans-Serif TAB-LFS-Kamban  
      -> Select Message Display under Mail and Newsgroups  
        -> Select Use this font while displaying plain text messages Variable width font  
      -> Select Message Compos.. under Mail and Newsgroups  
        -> for compose Messages select For messages that contain 8-bit character use "quoted printable" MIME encoding  
   
  Note : In the same way, set TABX-Ponni to view lexicon and TAMLKamban to view English-Tamil dictionaries of Madras university or Palaniappa Bros.
   
 

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