Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
<H2> USER MANUAL FOR  mled - THE MULTILINGUAL EDITOR </H2>

&quotmled&quot is a simple editor for preparing text in Indian languages.
Judging by current standards, mled is a primitive and very crude program 
but its simplicity is its strength.<P>
mled is symbolically a reminder of the early text editors used in the
computers of the seventies viz. ed under unix, edlin under CP/M. DOS etc.<P>
   mled was one of the first programs written using the IIT Madras
software library and will most probably be followed by a more refined
screen editor. But till such time, it can be used  atleast to learn data
entry in Indian languages, if nothing else. <P>
       mled is invoked from the command line or by clicking its icon
as appropriate. mled requires one command line parameter which is the 
language in which one wishes to prepare text. The language can be one of
the languages supported in the IITM system.<P>
      The mled editor works in two modes: command and data entry. When
invoked it will be in the command mode. One will identify the command mode
easily through the &quot XXX &gt &quot prompt at the beginning. 
XXX will be the current line number that the editor is positioned at and 
when the editor started this will be zero. <P>
Commands may be extended as single character commands, preferably in
English though the local language characters may be given. This may not
work in some languages, since some keys may not be used as they do not
correspond to valid characters. <P>
       The <STRONG> F1 </STRONG> key is used to toggle the keyboard from local 
language to English and back. The single character commands may be grouped 
into three groups as follows. <P>
<UL>
<LI> file operations and append text.
<LI>edit an already entered line of text.
<LI>perform insertion, deletion and block operations on already entered
text.
</UL> 

A minimal manual describing the commands is available here. <P>
<A HREF="mledman.txt"> user manual for mled </A> <P> 
 A small local language file which shows the contents of the screen as one
uses mled, is included here for reference. <P>
<A HREF="../llf/mled.llf"> contents of the screen when mled is run
          </A> <P>
Note that you will require lb to view the above file. <P>