BWEDIT - A Bengali text editor

                           Version 3.0 (July 2002)

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 supports two editing
modes: writing directly in Bengali and writing in Romanized Bengali.
It incorporates many features commonly found in modern editors. In addition,
it is capable of converting Bengali text files to html, LaTeX, ISCII and
PostScript. Spell checking facilities are also provided for the Romanized
editing mode. Limited facilities for reading and sending mails are also
included.


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 to the desired
formats. The X11 and PostScript fonts are bundled with bwedit, whereas
the TeX interface bwti can be downloaded from my pages. Tcl/Tk can be
downloaded from http://www.tcl.tk/.


Installation

Read the file ./INSTALL and BDF/INSTALL for knowing about the installation
procedures.


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Copyright (C) 1998-2002 by Abhijit Das [[email protected]]

This file is part of BWEDIT.

BWEDIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

BWEDIT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with BWEDIT; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA