I don't find the way latex is used to write Bangla in
BangTeX very useful, particularly for editing. I have
a Proposal for writing Bangla with LaTeX. It will be
easy and flexible. It is long and given here. Is there
any taker? This was sent to www.altruists.org who are
developing Ekushey bangla writing software for MSWord
for free (its excellent--you can test)
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Here is a proposal about TeX/LaTeX to write Bangla.
The aim in this proposal is to provide the user ease
of use, greater flexibility and use of English and
Bangla easily in same document (This is necessary and
you know why!).
1. Unlike English there should be two types of fonts
-- Traditional (with traditional conjuncts-- so-called
'unclear' conjuncts) and Bangla Akademi (clear
conjuncts, partially used by RinkyMJ fonts). These two
can be loaded by commands like, say, \bnTr and \bnAK.
These can be used in TeX.
2. For LaTeX there will be Bangla package which should
be loaded by \usepackage{banglaharaf} command. This
will define two environments {banglaTR} and
{banglaAK}. Anything written in this environment will
be in Bangla (traditional or Akademi)-- but not the
bangla numerics. Font changing commands such as Large,
Huge etc and \bf, \textbf etc. will work for bangla.
\rm-like command will generate roman even in these
environments.
3. A font have to be developed resembling handwriting
(standard may be that of Tagore) wich may be used for
italics (\it or \textit or \emph etc). This is to be
done to fill the absence of italics in Bangla. Slanted
& wide fonts have to be generated seperately. (All
italics fonts are actually Slanted fonts).
4. To write numerics in Bangla a separate package say
"banglanumeric" is to be loaded.
Reason: Textbooks donot use bangla numerics! Once this
package is loaded, equation numbers, items references
pagenumbers will be in bangla.
5. When the environments like abstracts, references,
captions are called within the bangla environments the
titles will be replaced by respective bangla words.
6. Writing of bangla in roman scripts will be phonetic
and simple. This process is used successfully in
slightly different forms in iLEAP word processor (free
limited version at www.cdac-india.com), Axar
(www.parabaas.com) mail interfaces of
www.banglalive.com, sify.com, rediffmail.com etc.
7. 'Ekushey' may work for generating the TeX source
(as it is doing now for Pandey's TeX). If Possible,
this may work in conjuction with the free TeX editor
TeXniccenter (as it is doing for MSWord) for doing so.
For windows,Linux StarOffice may also work. A separate
editor (like Axar) will be good.
8.Professional looking Metafonts must be developed on
the basis of available fonts. This will be standard
like computer modern for English.
9. Ahomiya (Assamese) has two extra fonts. If they are
defined, this can be used for Ahomiya also.
10. Same structure may be used with all brahmi based
scripts. (Devnagari, etc.)
--- Kaushik Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If
you don't mind using latex the bangtex package
> http://tnp.saha.ernet.in/~pbpal/bangtex/bangtex.html
>
> is nice.
>
> Does anyone know if latex or some variant supports
> colours ?
> -kg
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Sonjoy Ganguly wrote:
>
> > Dear Fraternity,
> > I would like to type, edit and beautify in Bengali
> ( some thing like Ileap in
> > windoze) scripts. I am on Man 9.0. successfully
> running
> > Any body , any clue. Please respond.
> > Thanks
> > Sonjoy.
> >
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