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< h2 > Converters in Jskad< / h2 >
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In recent versions of Jskad, the 'Tools' menu has an option 'Launch
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Converter...'. If you use that option, you will find a set of
first-class converters that can convert digital Tibetan from one
form to another. (A command-line interface is also available;
see below.)
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< p >
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Some of the converters there are based on Jskad technology, but all
are first-class in the sense that they are well though-out, well
tested<!-- DLC LINK TO V&V story --> , and handle errors
nicely. Certain features in Jskad are quite buggy; for
example, its keyboards do not work as desired, but even when they
do, they silently drop certain input characters. Do not worry
that the converters described here suffer from these flaws; not one
character of input is ever silently dropped. It is the
intention of the developers that a Buddhist canon one day could be
entrusted to these converters. Before you do that, though,
please contact < a
href="mailto:thdltools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">the
developers< / a > to be sure that this documentation is up-to-date and
to develop a custom validation and verification plan. None of
the converters has yet been hand-validated on a real text of any
size, but extensive unit testing has been performed for each
conversion at every stage of development.
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< p >
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The following converters are available:
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< ul >
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< li > < a href = "ACIP_To_Tibetan_Converter.html" > ACIP-> Unicode< / a >
(Text-> Text)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "ACIP_To_Tibetan_Converter.html" > ACIP-> Tibetan
Machine Web< / a > (Text-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> ACIP< / a > (RTF-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> ACIP< / a > (RTF-> Text)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TM-> TMW< / a > (RTF-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> TM< / a > (RTF-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> Unicode< / a > (RTF-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> EWTS< / a > (RTF-> RTF)< / li >
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< li > < a href = "TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html" > TMW-> EWTS< / a > (RTF-> Text)< / li >
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< p >
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Moreover, EWTS-> Unicode and EWTS-> TMW converters are in
development. < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/wyword.html">Wylie
Word 2.0< / a > has better EWTS support at present.
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< p >
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Above, < em > RTF< / em > is an abbreviation for Rich Text Format;
< em > Text< / em > refers to an unformatted text file (in one of several
encodings); < em > TMW< / em > refers to the < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/tmw.html">Tibetan
Machine Web< / a > font; < em > TM< / em > refers to the < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/tm.html">Tibetan
Machine< / a > font; < em > Unicode< / em > refers to the Tibetan < a
href="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode< / a > characters in the range
U+0F00-U+0FFF mainly but also sometimes includes other Unicode
characters; < em > EWTS< / em > refers to Tibetan encoded using the < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/langling/ewts/">Extended
Wylie Transliteration Scheme< / a > , a Roman transliteration scheme;
< em > ACIP< / em > refers to Tibetan encoded using < a
href="http://asianclassics.org">Asian Classics Input Project< / a >
(ACIP) < a
href="http://asianclassics.org/download/tibetancode/ticode.pdf">Tibetan
Input Code< / a > , another Roman transliteration scheme.
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< a name = "#invok" > < / a > < h3 > Invoking the Converters< / h3 >
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< p >
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The converters have a user-friendly GUI interface, and it tells you
when things go wrong (from things like the lack of a needed glyph in
the output font to things like your having selected the wrong
conversion). The GUI is not properly documented here, and
probably will not be until you contact < a
href="mailto:thdltools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">the
developers< / a > and ask them to document it.
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< / p >
< p >
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To use the GUI, first launch < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/jskad.html">Jskad< / a >
itself. Then select 'Launch Converter...' from the 'Tools'
menu. Let's hope from there it's self-explanatory, because it
is not yet properly documented.<!-- DLC -->
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< p >
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For batch conversions of many files, a command-line interface to the
converters may be more suitable than the GUI interface. In the
same JAR file as Jskad, power users will find a command-line utility
that can do everything the GUI interface to the converters can
do. To learn how to invoke it, see the output you get when you
use this invocation:
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java -cp "c:\my thdl tools\Jskad.jar" \
org.thdl.tib.input.TibetanConverter --help
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< p >
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where you must replace "c:\my thdl tools\Jskad.jar" with the
appropriate path on your system.
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< h5 > License< / h5 >
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< p > Both the converters and this document are released under the < a
href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/thdl_license.txt">THDL
Open Community License Version 1.0< / a > .< / p >
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Please
< a href = "mailto:thdltools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" >
e-mail us< / a >
your comments about this page.
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