Software Applications: Mac OS, Open Source

A wiki setup for new Scripture translations and works on discipleship, intended to be shared freely on the web. Content can also be distributed to mobile phones as audio or video.  They have thought through issues of how to assure quality if i ...

Application - sewhite - 12/28/2011 - 16:48 - 1 comment

XLingPaper XLingPaper is a way to author and archive linguistic papers or books using XML. Many of us prefer writing XLingPaper files with the XMLmind XML Editor . It makes writing XML much easier than other XML-oriented editors we've us ...

Application - ablack - 01/05/2012 - 12:24 - 0 comments

Introduction Bibledit is a multi-platform Bible editor, providing tools to the Bible translator.   Features Native USFM text editor, several texts can be opened at once Project notes editor Chapter and bo ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 14:45 - 0 comments

A basic need to do any language work on the computer is a font that will display the needed characters. Fonts that come with your operating system may have a certain number of characters already, but the SIL fonts frequently have a wider variety of cha ...

Application - sewhite - 12/28/2011 - 14:40 - 0 comments

Webonary gives language groups the ability to put their bilingual or multilingual dictionaries on the web with a minimum of technical help. Each dictionary is built around a search bar, which looks for a word throughout the dictionary, and returns ...

Application - Steve Miller - 06/21/2011 - 15:17 - 1 comment

This add-on inserts linguistic examples into LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org Writer documents.  It reads XML files from Phonology Assistant, Toolbox, and FieldWorks. Other features include: - Data Conversion using SIL Converters. ...

Application - jim_kornelsen - 08/18/2011 - 03:26 - 0 comments

TAMS stands for Text Analysis Markup System. It is a convention for identifying themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research. TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAM ...

Application - kwarfel - 06/06/2011 - 16:10 - 0 comments

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layo ...

Application - Airliner - 09/02/2010 - 09:45 - 1 comment

SFM2Web is a Python3 program that converts materials encoded using SIL's Standard Format Marker format (see a very brief description here ) into web pages. The program can convert a lexicon, interlinear texts, Bible books, a multilanguage phra ...

Application - dhigby - 05/02/2011 - 06:13 - 0 comments

An audio editor that runs on all major platforms. It is oriented more toward music than phonetics and has only limited analysis tools. However, it can do noise reduction and has some useful editing tools, including the ability to modify individual samp ...

Application - languist - 09/02/2010 - 08:51 - 1 comment