Virtual Bangladesh : FAQ: Bengali Fonts

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Index

Note: Recent developments have made many of the following obsolete.

• Windows Platforms
• True Type Fonts
• Unix Platforms

Windows Platform

Onirbaan Package

Onirbaan Bangla interface program for use with Windows 3.1+, 95, 98, NT which facilitates Bangla desktop publishing except spell check, can be obtained for US$43 from the following:

True Type Fonts

• Sonargon True Type Fonts for IBM PC/Clone (MS-Windows Required) (sgaon.zip) can be obtained from ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/font/sgaon.zip
• Bengali Fonts developed by Vijay K. Patel fro both PC and Mac environmrnts. More information can be obtained from (http://clarksville.mc.utexas.edu/~alim/Vijay/vijay.html)

Unix Platforms

ITRANS Package

Author: Avinash Chopde

Language: "ITRANS": Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu

Price: Free

Access: cs.duke.edu /dist /sources /itrans32.* OR: oak.oakland.edu /pub /msdos /tex /itrans32.*

OS: TeX on Unix/DOS

Comments: .zip for DOS, .tar.Z for Unix. A set of programs for producing Indian script output from transliterated input; optionally integrates with TeX; a formatter is included that outputs PostScript directly. CS encoding will soon be added as a supported input coding scheme.

AroSgaon

Extensions to SGAON fonts AroSgaon developed by M Masroor Ali

Available at the CTAN FTP sites including ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/pub/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0 and ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub//tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0

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