[Tugindia] Devnag LyX
S. venkataraman
svenkat at ignou.ac.in
Fri May 21 07:05:04 CEST 2004
Hi!
I also do not use Lyx, but Lyx is useful for
beginners.
As far as I know fonts may not be a
problem. There are enough indic fonts for
Xwindows. (Please correct me if I am wrong.)
We can use BDF fonts in Xwindows. What
we can do is to load the type 1 devanagari font
dvng*.pfb into fontforge(earlier known as Pfaedit)and
save them as BDF fonts. It could be as simple as that.
What could be a bother are the key maps for various input
methods like devnag, itrans and inscript. I am not
very familiar with Lyx. So, we need to dig a bit.
With best regards,
S. Venkataraman
Lecturer in Mathematics
School of Sciences
Indira Gandhi National University
Maidan Garhi
New Delhi 110 068
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amitabh Trehaan [mailto:amitabhtrehan at softhome.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:45 PM
> To: TUGIndia Mailing List; devnag-general at lists.sarovar.org
> Subject: [Tugindia] Devnag LyX
>
>
>
> Hi,
> at Sarai, there's been a discussion on expanding the reach of devnag
> LaTeX. One of the ideas is to get LyX to support devnag. AS
> we know, LyX
> is a WYSIWYM GUI for LaTeX.
> This means getting the user to type in devnagari using a key-layout
> like traditional WYSIWYGs. A different screen font (as
> available with X)
> could be used for this. Thus, we could get the quality of
> LaTeX at the
> backend and native input at the frontend. I know, this may
> mean less to
> some of us used to velthius transliteration but I think it will be
> useful. Many technical issues will be involved.
> What is the lists feedback? I suppose discussion on this should
> continue over the long-term on devnag-general or developers
> channel. I
> need some technical inputs also.
>
> Amitabh
>
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