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<h2>TMW to THDL Extended Wylie Converter</h2>
<p>
In the same JAR file as Jskad, power users will find a command-line
utility that converts Tibetan Machine Web-encoded (TMW-encoded) Rich
Text Format (RTF) files to RTF files with the appropriate THDL
Extended Wylie (Wylie) used instead of TMW.
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<p>
This converter is smart enough to solve the "curly-brace
problem". This problem originates with certain versions
of Microsoft Word's Rich Text Format writing capabilities.
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<p>
Further, this converter gives a polite error message when a given
.rtf file simply cannot be read by the version of Java used.
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Perhaps most importantly, the converter has a
<tt>--find-some-non-tmw</tt> mode of operation that gives you, the
user, confidence that RTF reading and writing idiosyncrasies are not
going to interfere with a flawless conversion. It does so by
printing out the first occurrence of a given character in a non-TMW
font. Here is some example output:
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java -cp Jskad.jar \
org.thdl.tib.input.TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE \
--find-some-non-tmw \
"Dalai Lama Fifth History 01.rtf"
non-TMW character newline in the font Tahoma appears first at location 39
non-TMW character ' ' in the font TimesNewRoman appears first at location 45
non-TMW character '}' in the font Tahoma appears first at location 66
non-TMW character '{' in the font Tahoma appears first at location 219
non-TMW character '\' in the font Tahoma appears first at location 1237
non-TMW character newline in the font Times New Roman appears first at location 9754
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Given the above output, you can be sure that a flawless conversion
(barring the appearance of <ahref="#knownbugs">known bugs</a>) will
result when you run <tt>java -cp Jskad.jar
org.thdl.tib.input.TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE "Dalai Lama Fifth History
01.rtf" > "Dalai Lama Fifth History 01 in THDL Extended
Wylie.rtf"</tt>. This is because the only text in the input
file besides Tibetan is whitespace and the Tahoma characters
<tt>'{'</tt>, <tt>'}'</tt>, and <tt>'\'</tt>. These Tahoma
characters are understood by the tool; they are symptoms of the
