                      DVEDIT - A Devnagari text editor

                           Version 1.0 (Dec 1998)

Welcome to the experimental Devnagari text editor dvedit. 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 dvedit 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 Devnagari text files to html, LaTeX and PostScript. It also
provides facilities to convert a text file written in 7-bit ASCII to a
Devnagari 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 with the distribution.
  3. The TeX fonts and a style file, if you want to compile the exported
     output in the LaTeX format. The original METAFONT files for dvng10.mf
     is not bundled with this distribution. This can be obtained from its
     author Frans J. Velthuis or from the ITRANS distribution. To the best
     of my knowledge, the corresponding slanted version of this Devnagari
     font is not available. This distribution provides a slanted version
     of the Devnagari font (namely, dvngsl10.mf). A style file (devnagari.sty)
     needed for the compilation of exported LaTeX documents is also supplied
     in this package.
  4. The PostScript Type 1 font dvr.gsf for exporting Devnagari documents
     to PostScript files. This font is also available in this package.

The first two are absolutely necessary for dvedit to work. The others are
optional and needed if you want to export Devnagari documents in the desired
format.

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/dvedit and install it.)

   * Install the slanted version of the TeX font. (optional)

   * Edit bin/dvedit. Change installdir, psfontfile and stylefile (lines 21 -
     23) according as where you want to install dvedit, the PostScript font
     file and the style file.
   * Edit Makefile. Change INSTALL_DIR, BIN_DIR, BDF_DIR, GSF_DIR and STY_DIR
     (Lines 9 - 23) if you are not satisfied with the default settings. Please
     do not change LIB_DIR, IMG_DIR and HELP_DIR.
   * If you have changed INSTALL_DIR or BDF_DIR, edit BDF/xdevnagadd and set
     dnfontdir accordingly.

     All this editing may not be necessary if you have root permission.
     The default values should be good enough. If you, on the other hand,
     do not have permission to write in /usr/local, change only INSTALL_DIR
     in Makefile and edit bin/dvedit and BDF/xdevnagadd to reflect this
     change.

   * Type
        make install
     at the command prompt.


Note

This version of dvedit is converted from version 1.4 of a text editor bwedit
written by me for editing Bengali text files. Since neither Hindi nor Marathi
nor Sanskrit is my mother tongue, some errors and omisions might have been
introduced. Please let me know if you find any. The version of the METAFONT
file (dvng10.mf) with which I worked might have been replaced by newer
versions. If you find incompatibility with your version of dvng10.mf, tell
me.

I am grateful to Athale Rahul Ramesh (athale@csa.iisc.ernet.in) for many
helpful suggestions and for removing many confusions of me regarding the
Devnagari alphabet. It's because of his inspiration that this editor came
into existence.


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/dv/]

--------------------------------------
 1998 by Abhijit Das (abhij@csa.iisc.ernet.in). Permission is hereby
granted to use and distribute dvedit 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.

