Openoffice.org 3.2 has released this year and now it is available for download. http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

It comes with two useful features:

Ubuntu 9.10 changed input method from scim to IBus. IBus is more flexible and powerful than scim.

Setp 1: Enable IBus
Form Menue, System -->Administration -->Lanuage Support

Updated on April 24, 2009 for Ubuntu 9.04.

Step 1. Install scim-m17n

Step 2: create a new input method file for Transliteration

Update (March 16, 2010): Openoffice.org 3.2 supports Alt keys as shortcut keys, how to use it? Read this: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/147