- The bpsf package, created by Ananda Kumar Samaddar.
These are postscript fonts for bangtex. If you want to get a
feel for what it does, see the postscript files created from the same
latex file, with (ps / pdf) and without (ps / pdf) using these fonts. If
you are convinced of the merits of using the postscript fonts after
seeing these samples, download the file
Keep it in the directory where you have kept the earlier files.
- The program seicor, created by Somendra Mohan
Bhattacharjee. This is a unix/linux shell program which allows you to
write the input file with much less effort. If you have used
bangtex before, you will appreciate the advantage of using
this file by looking at the instruction page for seicor. This is a pdf file.
If you have never used bangtex before, probably it is
difficult to explain the advantage gained by using
seicor. Roughly speaking, it makes typing of Bangla
text faster and easier. In Bangla, some of the vowel signs go to the
left of the associated consonant. For example, if you want to write
"pen", the order of the characters appearing in Bangla type is "epn".
But if you type it in the latter form, it is hard to recognize the
word as "pen" on the screen. Normal bangtex provides a
solution whereby you can typeset it as "\*p*en". If you use
seicor, you can typeset this word as "pen" in your input
tex file, run seicor on it, and the output contains
"\*p*en". Then you run LaTeX on the resulting file.
It is recommended that you download seicor:
Keep it in the directory where you have kept the earlier files.
- The program mkbangtex, created by Koushik Ray. It
is also a preprocessor for bangtex. In other words, writing
bangla would be much simpler if you use this program. You create a
file using mkbangtex rules (which are simpler than usual bangtex), run
mkbangtex on the file, and your output is a bangtex file with the
usual bangtex symbols and syntax.
Like in seicor, you will not need to use the bangtex \* commands for
i-kar, e-kar etc. In addition, you do not have to use many of the
capitalizations which are needed in bangtex. For example, "ataeb",
after running mkbangtex, turns to "AtoEb", which is usual bangtex.
To learn more about the program and to download it, click
here.
- A front-end for bangtex created by
Abhijit Dasgupta.
It enables one to type directly in Bangla, using any Unicode
text-editor and font. Of course, the TeX/LateX commands will have to
use ASCII characters, but whenever you want to type Bangla text, you
can directly see it on the screen, without any processing of the file.
The details can be found
by
clicking here.
- A software for unicode conversion from bangtex,
called sei2uni, developed by Proyag Pal and Palash
Baran Pal. It is a perl program. It operates on a bangtex file
written in the almost-phonetic form by using the \* commands, or the
seicor version in which the \* commands are suppressed. The output
is a unicode file for everything except commands and formatting
statements.
To learn more about the program and to download it, click
here.
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