This layout isn't very good for typing text of Indian languages (like Hindi) in Computers.įollowing is the layout that LeKhaNi supported it is very similar to the 'Hindi Typewriter Layout'. Typing Indian Scriptsįor typing simple applications of general public, typists still use mechanical typewriters in India! (DevaNagari typewriters by Remington were very common.) The keyboard layout of these typewriters is called 'Hindi Typewriter Layout'. If you have some old text that you typed in Lekh(a)ni, but now want that to be converted to Unicode encoded DevaNagari text. It was of great help to all those computer users who wanted to have Hindi text mixed with English text. It was a small but smart bilingual text editor. The last version of Lekhani came out in 2001.

Some of the leading computer magazines included one of these two versions in their CDs. About 1,20,000 free copies of version 1 and 1.1 (for Windows 95) were distributed. It included the first ever font containing glyphs of DevaNagari and Latin. In 1996, Akhilesh Gupta released version 1 of Lekhani as shareware. Emend was later renamed as Lekhani/Lekhni (लेखनी lekhanee). In 1993, Akhilesh Gupta wrote a bilingual plain-text editor 'Emend' for processing DevaNagari along with English (for Windows 3.1). A Hindi Word-Processor लेखनी LeKhaNi/LekhniĭevaNagari is the script used for writing Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi and some other languages of South Asia.

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