Software Applications: With support for complex non-Roman scripts, Linux

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 - 05/08/2012 - 17:34 - 3 comments

SynPhony is a browser-based program that facilitates the rapid production of literacy materials in alphabetically written languages. Being browser-based means it can be accessed from a web server OR your personal hard drive. In both cases it will displ ...

Application - norbert_rennert - 05/04/2012 - 13:47 - 0 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

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

SUMMARY:  A Unicode typesetting system based on TeX DETAILS:  XeTeX is a typesetting system based on a merger of Donald Knuth's TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies and is still in the experimental stage of its dev ...

Application - kwarfel - 11/11/2009 - 14:33 - 0 comments