Thanks for your replies, Dekel and Jean-Marc, to answer your questions, the language I hope to add support to LyX for is Bengali. Spoken in Eastern India and Bangladesh. I want to be able to create Bengali documents in LyX rather than localise the menus and messages. This I will do later if possible. I have set up a rather crappy website at http://ananda.freewebsites.com/bangla_lyx.html if you're interested. It should be quite easy (i.e minimal C/C++ coding) as it uses the quite good bangtex package (link on website). This particular package has actual LaTeX class bletter.cls, bbook.cls andbarticle.cls, for writing letters, books and articles in Bengali respectively. So it could simply be a matter of creating corresponding LyX layouts for the LaTeX classes, LyX keyboard maps, and then getting LyX to display Bengali characters properly.
I would like to use pfb fonts as screen fonts within the main editing window itself, to display Bengali characters as they are typed. The pfb files themselves were converted from the metafont source files using TeXtrace, so I don't know how easy it will be to get LyX to use them. Your help is much appreciated. Ananda Samaddar
