JEB - Junularo Esperantista Brita

JEB's website is designed to be a rich platform for sharing and contributing all sorts of content in or about Esperanto. In previous incarnations of the website, the Forum was used as the primary means of sharing content. That's no longer true; the new forum is intended primarily for discussion and chat. If you want to write an article to provide information, as opposed to discussion, it needs to go on the blog.

If you happen to be sufficiently geeky or an advocate of open-source software (or both) and have Linux as the operating system on your computer, the good news is that pretty much all Linux distributions already have the ability to type accented Esperanto letters (ĈĉĜĝĤĥĴĵŜŝŬŭ) built in without needing an external program like Ek! (as for Windows). The problem is setting your distro up to do this ...

One of the small difficulties with Esperanto is how to type the accented letters (ĉĝĥĵŝŭ) on a computer. While you can use the x notation (cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux) or even the h notation (ch, gh, hh, jh, sh, u) to represent those letters, it's so much nicer if you can use the proper characters.

Ek! (Esperanta klavaro) really is an incredibly useful piece of (Windows-compatible) software. Once you've got it up and running, it's incredibly easy to use.

The options screen, however, is a little off putting, especially if you're new to the language. Even if you're not, it's still not the easiest thing in the world to understand, especially when you have to make your choices on the spur of the moment.

So, to do a little to help prevent people from being to overawed to install the program, here's a little step-by-step guide about what the options are and what I'd recommend.

So you are realising that UEA and TEJO are cool mega-useful organisations, which you want to support and whose services you want to enjoy, right? If you have already tried to look at the membership-fee table and were perplexed at the rather complex system of membership categories, do not despair: Marteno is here to guide you hand-in-hand through the labyrinth, in which he feels himself right at home. So will you, soon