                       Bwedit - A Bengali text editor

                           Version 2.1 (Apr 1999)

Welcome to the experimental Bengali text editor bwedit. It runs on any X11
window system having the Tcl/Tk shell wish. It provides a very easy-to-use
and effective graphical interface. This experimental version of bwedit has
evolved to be a rather sophisticated text editor. It incorporates many
features commonly found in modern editors. In addition, it is capable
of converting Bengali text files to html, LaTeX and PostScript. It also
provides facilities to convert a text file written in 7-bit ASCII to a
Bengali text file. You can send contents of the editor windows through e-mail.

Requirements

  1. The Tcl/Tk shell wish
  2. The X11 bitmap fonts available from the bwfu distribution.
  3. The TeX fonts and a style file available from the bwti distribution, if
     you want to compile the exported output in the LaTeX format.
  4. The PostScript Type 1 fonts available from the bwfu distribution, for
     exporting Bengali documents to PostScript files.

The first two are absolutely necessary for bwedit to work. The others are
optional and needed if you want to export Bengali documents in the desired
format. Neither of these softwares is bundled with bwedit. They can be
obtained separately.

Installation

   * Check if you have Tcl/Tk. Just type `wish' at the shell prompt. If you
     find that something happens (apart from Command not found), you are
     ready for the show.
     (This script might as well run on `expect'. Try it. Do some engineering
     at the beginning of the script bin/bwedit and install it.)
   * Install the X11 fonts. You may use the bourne-shell script xaddbnfonts
     provided in the distribution. To check if your X server can read the
     Bengali fonts, type

        xlsfonts | grep bengali

     This gives you a listing of 18 fonts used by bwedit.
   * Optionally install the TeX fonts and the PostScript fonts.
   * Edit bin/bwedit. Change installdir and psfontfile (lines 14 and 15)
     according as where you want to install bwedit and the PostScript
     font file.
   * Edit Makefile. Change INSTALL_DIR and BIN_DIR (Lines 9 and 12),
     if you are not satisfied with the default settings.
   * Type
        make install
     at the command prompt.
   * Now run bwedit as
        bwedit
     and later either load examples/example1.bng or import Roman text file
     examples/example2.txt.

     Enjoy the fascinating history of Roman calendar. In Bengali.

     Enjoy bwedit too.


Examples

As stated earlier, the file
   examples/example1.bng
is a simple Bengali text file. The file
   examples/example2.txt
is a text file written in Roman. Try to import this file by selecting
[Import]/[Load transliterated roman file]. This file clearly illustrates the
Roman-to-Bengali conversion rules that bwedit follows. Finally load the file
   examples/example3.bng
This example illustrates the use of all tags that bwedit can deal with.
Try to export this tagged file to HTML, LaTeX and/or PostScript. Compare
the exported output with the editor text.

Download

By http: [http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6024/]
     or  [http://www2.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~abhij/download/]
By ftp:  [ftp://pulastya.csa.iisc.ernet.in/pub/barda/softwares/bw/]
     or  ftp://sunsite.iisc.ernet.in/pub/packages/bengali/]

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© 1998-99 by Abhijit Das (abhij@csa.iisc.ernet.in). Permission is hereby
granted to use and distribute bwedit free of charge for personal and
academic uses, as long as the original author gets credit and this copyright
notice remains intact. Use of this software for commercial purposes is
strictly prohibited.

