Software Applications: GENERAL TASKS, Open Source

FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks . It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks. It can help you: record and manage l ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:23 - 3 comments

Pathway takes Scripture translation or dictionary data and presents it in various publishable forms. It can be used in either SIL FieldWorks and UBS Paratext. Once installed, you will see new export options which allow you to send data ...

Application - dhigby - 09/30/2011 - 09:55 - 2 comments

Translation Editor helps Bible translators edit and check Biblical text in a vernacular language. In Translation Editor, members of a translation team can do any of the following: Edit Scripture text in almost any language of the wor ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:14 - 0 comments

SUMMARY: WorldPad is a text editor that can display text in complex scripts using Graphite.  It is an SIL product and is distributed as part of FieldWorks. DETAILS: WorldPad is a basic text editor whose main distinction is the ability to displ ...

Application - kwarfel - 12/28/2011 - 14:52 - 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

PdfDroplet is a free, simple little tool which only does one thing:  it takes your PDF and gives you a new one, with the pages combined and reordered, ready for saving & printing as booklets. With PdfDroplet, you can make several booklet t ...

Application - hatton - 11/03/2011 - 10:45 - 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

WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them. The program is customizable and task-oriented, giving the advisor ...

Application - hatton - 08/10/2011 - 17:23 - 0 comments