[Tugindia] Devnag LyX

[S. venkataraman]

Hi!
I have Lyx, but I haven't try it out 
 because I am used to emacs. I tried 
 subscribing to the list. But, I failed to 
 get the e-mail registering me. I will try again.
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: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:07 PM
> To: TUGIndia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Devnag LyX
> 
> 
> Hi Venkat,
>  hmm. thats an interesting input. We'll probably need another kind of 
> inputting method which can work without a preprocessor. Do 
> you think you 
> can try something. just download LyX and try it. It's much 
> improved than 
> what I remember at college and could be a decent tool to popularise 
> LaTeX. Venkat, do subscribe to the devnag-general list and cross-post 
> these mails there. A few people want to use the devnag list without 
> subscribing to the tugindia list.
> 
> Amitabh
> 
> 
> S. venkataraman wrote:
> 
> >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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