[Tex/LaTex] How to insert Bengali text in IEEE conference paper

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I am writing a paper for an IEEE conference using IEEEtran.cls. The primary language of the paper is English but my work deals with Bengali language. I want to know how do I insert some Bengali words such as পারে in the paper.

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You should use XeTeX or luaTeX and your font should support Bengali. I have used Mukti Narrow (I had issues with Free Serif, whitout fontspec package):

\documentclass{article}
\font\beng="Mukti Narrow Bold:script=beng"

\begin{document}

This is Bengali: {\beng পারে}

\end{document}

This is an example from ieeetran class, which works just fine:

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\font\beng="Mukti Narrow Bold:script=beng"

\ifCLASSINFOpdf
\else
\fi
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}
\begin{document}
\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for Conferences}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}
\IEEEauthorblockA{School of Electrical and\\Computer Engineering\\
Georgia Institute of Technology\\
Atlanta, Georgia 30332--0250\\
Email: http://www.michaelshell.org/contact.html}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{Homer Simpson}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Twentieth Century Fox\\
Springfield, USA\\
Email: homer@thesimpsons.com}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockN{James Kirk\\ and Montgomery Scott}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Starfleet Academy\\
San Francisco, California 96678-2391\\
Telephone: (800) 555--1212\\
Fax: (888) 555--1212}}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
The abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}

\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle



\section{Introduction}
This demo file is intended to serve as a ``starter file''
for IEEE conference papers produced under \LaTeX\ using
IEEEtran.cls version 1.7 and later.

{\beng অপ্রিয় বাক্য এড়িয়ে মধুর ব্যবহারে কার্যোদ্ধার।}

I wish you the best of success.

\hfill mds

\hfill January 11, 2007

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}
Subsection text here.


\subsubsection{Subsubsection Heading Here}
Subsubsection text here.

\section{Conclusion}
The conclusion goes here.
\section*{Acknowledgment}


The authors would like to thank...

\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{IEEEhowto:kopka}
H.~Kopka and P.~W. Daly, \emph{A Guide to \LaTeX}, 3rd~ed.\hskip 1em plus
  0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Harlow, England: Addison-Wesley, 1999.

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

This is part of the output that contains the Bengali text:

Bengali Text in IEEEtran LaTeX class

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You need to edit the associated .bst file and adjust the inproceedings FUNCTION to match the sequence in the output. Since you're using IEEEtran, we're talking about IEEEtran.bst. Here's the entry in question:

FUNCTION {inproceedings}
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  format.series output
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  format.note output
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Note how *.date (within publisher) follows *.volume. If you flip these around, they will be updated in the output as well. So your new inproceedings FUNCTION should resemble:

FUNCTION {inproceedings}
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You can save this new IEEEtran.bst in your working folder. Here is a complete minimal example with the new output following the compile sequence (pdf)LaTeX > BibTeX > (pdf)LaTeX > (pdf)LaTeX:

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\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@inproceedings{Logue2001, 
  author = "Logue, D. L. and Krein, P. T.", 
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  booktitle = "Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference", 
  volume = "1",
  month = jun,
  year = "2001", 
  pages = "33-37"}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

_{Don't change journal styles, since they'll change it back to their requirements.}

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You should consider not changing any of the layout when submitting a paper. If tables should float to the top based on the conference paper class, then so-be-it.

However, you can force the floating behaviour of the table environment to stop based on the following two approaches:

Use the float package and the accompanying [H] float specifier.
```
\usepackage{float}

...

\begin{table}[H]
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  ...
\end{table}
```
If this is your choice, consider reading:
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Manually set a block that contains the table:

\usepackage{capt-of}

...

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
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  \captionof{table}{A Simple Example Table}
  ...

  \addvspace{\floatsep}%
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