EBONG 1.0 A tool (preprocessor) for writing your pRaa-ne-r ka-thaa in the bengali langauage. It allows one to write the text in Rapid Roman Bangla and convert it to the bangtex format by a python program. All LaTeX markups are preserved in the target file. A tentative userguide is provided with the distro. Shibaji Banerjee (shibaji_ban@yahoo.co.in)