Software Applications: Convert between formats (e.g. SFM and XML)

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

MacAutoFormat is a text formatting program which converts Standard Format text files to RTF format. These resulting files then automatically format when opened in a program with an RTF converter such as Microsoft Word. For more information, use thi ...

Application - kwarfel - 12/28/2011 - 15:01 - 1 comment

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

Lexique Pro provides a rich browsing experience for lexicons store in an SFM format such as MDF. No import is required (though there is some initial configuration). It also supports the new XML standard, LIFT (Lexicon Interchange FormaT ...

Application - languist - 12/28/2011 - 14:55 - 0 comments

A Microsoft Word template to provide smarter and safer layout of RTF files exported from Paratext , Adapt It or Fieldworks Translation Editor . To see why you might choose to use SILAS rather than just printing the RTF file as it comes ou ...

Application - dhigby - 06/30/2011 - 21:38 - 0 comments

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

Sheet Swiper converts spreadsheets containing linguistic data to Standard Format (for use with Linguist's Toolbox, Phonology Assistant, Lexique Pro, etc.). The rules for how to do the conversion come from the first rows of the spreadsheet itself, s ...

Application - hatton - 09/22/2010 - 18:54 - 0 comments

PhoneBox is designed to support the analysis of language data that has been collected using The Field Linguist's Toolbox .   With PhoneBox you can use phonetic data collected with Toolbox, without any import or conversion. ...

Application - kwarfel - 11/13/2009 - 11:33 - 0 comments

RTF2SFM converts a styled Word .RTF file to UTF8-encoded SFM. Unlike the old SF Converter package, RTF2SFM correctly handles Unicode characters. RTF2SFM is part of the SIL::RTF Perl module that provides an event-driven parser for exami ...

Application - kwarfel - 11/13/2009 - 10:21 - 0 comments

The S(tandard)F(ormat) Converter is a utility designed to read a plain text file tagged with SIL Standard Format Markers and produce a file in Microsoft's Rich Text Format (RTF) suitable for printing with Word and many other word processors. It can be ...

Application - kwarfel - 11/11/2009 - 14:29 - 0 comments