Software Applications: With support for complex non-Roman scripts

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

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

UnicodeCCount is a quick-and-dirty Unicode-aware replacement for Ccount, the character count utility. Written in Perl, the program is available both as the Perl source (requires Perl 5.8.1 or newer) and as a stand-alone Windows EXE.   As t ...

Application - kwarfel - 12/28/2011 - 15:00 - 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

SUMMARY:  (Text Encoding Conversion kit)  A toolkit for converting plain-text files from one encoding to another (e.g. Legacy to Unicode ). DETAILS:  TECkit is a low-level toolkit intended to be used by other applications that ...

Application - kwarfel - 12/28/2011 - 14:50 - 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

  Keyman Desktop is a multilingual virtual keyboard application.  It enables a user to type in any of over 600 languages in any Windows application such as MS Office, email, SIL Fieldworks, web applications, Adobe applicat ...

Application - Keyman - 10/05/2011 - 17:05 - 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

In the FieldWorks suite of applications, Data Notebook was the first major product released, and it's probably the most polished. DN and FLEx have a similar look and feel, but DN is simpler (fewer "moving parts"). As you experience variou ...

Application - languist - 10/27/2010 - 11:24 - 2 comments