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