7. Other Resources

7.1. Useful tools

The following is a list of programs that may be useful for debugging any trouble regarding the fonts, keyboard or the PDFs. Their usages are well documented in their respective man pages:

• xlsfonts , lists the XLFDs of the all fonts available to X.

• xfd , shows all the glyphs of a font when available to X.

• xset , resets various X options like fontpath.

• xev , detects and shows various mouse and keypress events.

• xkbcomp , besides other operations, prints the current XKB configuration in a single file.

• xpdf , a PDF viewer.

• pdffonts , shows font list of a PDF file.

• ps2pdf , PostScript to PDF converter.

7.2. Useful Links & References

• A detailed description of XKB, www.charvolant.org/~doug/a>

• A one stop mall for Unicode based Bangla on Linux, www.bengalinux.org

• The XFree86-De-uglification-Mini-HOWTO

• Font-HOWTO

• Fonts in XFree86 , also supplied with the XFree86 documentation as README.fonts and normally found inside /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/

• Bangla Localisation HOWTO , a good starting point for using Unicode based Bangla.