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<!-- @date September 7, 2002 -->
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<title>THDL Tools Developers' Site</title>
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<h1>The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library</h1>
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<a href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/index.html">Home</a> > <a href="index.html">Tools</a> > <a href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/software.html">Software</a> > Developers' Site
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<h2>THDL Tools Developers' Site</h2>
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<p>
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This page is a technical page for software developers, which
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presents details concerning the internal mechanics of the <a
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href="http://thdl.org/">THDL</a> tools. This page covers both
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low-level (e.g., which API?) and high-level (e.g., which user
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interface?) issues.
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<a href="#related">
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Related projects</a>
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are also discussed.
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<p>
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The only thing we personally have got up on the web that's any use
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thus far are
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<ul>
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<li>
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David Chandler's <a
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href="http://tibetan-g11n.blogspot.com/">blog</a> about Tibetan
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i18n, l10n, and g11n.
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<li>
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the <a
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href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/nightly/builds/NightlyBuilds.html">
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nightly builds</a>. Get the latest, bleeding-edge version
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and try it out for yourself. The latest API docs (i.e.,
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Javadocs) are also available.
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</li>
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<li>
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the documentation for the <a
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href="tibwn_ini_file_format.html"><code>tibwn.ini</code> file
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format</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="Tibetan51Errata.html">errata</a> for the <i>Tibetan!
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5.1 for Word</i> documentation, mainly concerning the Tibetan
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Machine and Tibetan Machine Web fonts.
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</li>
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<li>
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a <a href="TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE.html"> document</a> describing
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the Tibetan converters (ACIP to TMW, TMW to Unicode, TMW to
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EWTS, etc.) we've developed.
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<li>
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our Javadoc <a href="pubapi/">API docs</a> [grab the whole <a
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href="public-javadocs.zip">zip file</a>] (see also these <a
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href="privateapi/">API docs</a> [grab the whole <a
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href="private-javadocs.zip">zip file</a>] that contain private
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class members).
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</li>
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<li>
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a description of our <a href="BuildSystems.html"> build
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systems</a> that tells you how to compile, run, and cut releases
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for our tools.
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</li>
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<li>
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a <a href="TibetanFormatConverterDesign.html">design
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document</a> concerning the Tibetan Format Converter.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Here are some links to tools of interest:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Jskad uses an Ant build system. See
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<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/">
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Apache Ant</a>
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or jump right to the
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<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/coretasklist.html">
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documentation</a>
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for the tasks of which we make use.
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</li>
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<li>
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Our unit tests use the
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<a href="http://junit.org/">
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JUnit</a>
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framework. Javadocs are <a
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href="http://www.junit.org/junit/javadoc/3.8.1/index.htm">here</a>
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(or jump directly <a
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href="http://www.junit.org/junit/javadoc/3.8.1/index.htm/allclasses-frame.html/junit/framework/TestCase.html">here</a>
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for TestCase's docs).
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</li>
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<li>
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In our Java(TM) code, we load some classes at run-time. To
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understand the mechanisms behind
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this--<code>Class.forName(String)</code> and thread context
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class loaders, etc.--read
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<a href="http://www.javageeks.com/Papers/ClassForName/">
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this JavaGeeks white paper</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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Our Java code uses XML. We use
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<a href="http://jdom.org/">
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JDOM</a>,
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<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/">
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Xalan</a> (XSLT),
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and
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<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html">
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Xerces</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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We use the Ant Task Suite provided by Venus Application
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Publisher (Vamp) to make putting releases up via Java Web Start
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less painful. See
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<a href="http://www.vamphq.com/ant.html">
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VampHQ</a>.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Related Projects<a name="related"></a></h3>
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<p>
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Below are links to some (mainly Java) text editors or word
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processors that we might learn from or integrate with. This list is
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by no means comprehensive. I started my search from
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=63&discrim=198">
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SF.net's software map</a>,
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by the way (and see
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=70&discrim=198">
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this corner of the map</a>,
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too), and haven't yet done anything more.
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</p>
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<li>
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The X-licensed <a href="http://icu.sourceforge.net/">ICU</a>
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provides Unicode support for Java and C++. See our RFEs
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for ideas about how we should integrate with this.
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(Spoiler: The answer is "tightly"!)
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</li>
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<li>
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The non-open-source
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<a href="http://uk.geocities.com/babelstone1357/Software/BabelPad.html">
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BabelPad</a> allows you to create Unicode documents using a
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THDL Extended Wylie keyboard.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://vietpad.sourceforge.net/">
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VietPad</a>,
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written in Java, (for entering Vietnamese language in Unicode-8
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or -16) may teach us something, though integration doesn't seem
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useful (because it is primitive) and would require changing our
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license to the GPL.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://jedit.sourceforge.net/">
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JEdit</a>
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bills itself as a "programmer's text editor", but it supports
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Unicode, is 100% Java, is very popular, and is extremely
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extensible, making integration while keeping our
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non-GPL-compatible license a possibility. Definitely worth a
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second look.
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://yudit.org/">
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Yudit</a>
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is an X11 application that supports Unicode in a big way. Their
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<a href="http://yudit.org/">
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website</a>
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has many links of interest to us as we ponder Unicode
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compatibility.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed/LGPL'ed
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<a href="http://www.prometheas.com/projects/_syggrafeus/index.html">
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Syggrafeus/Rosetta Stone Library</a>
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is a Java library for Unicode multi-lingual something-or-other.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://sted.sourceforge.net/">
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STED</a>
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is a Java transliterator for many languages.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/words-of-magic/">
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Words of Magic</a>
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is a very simple word processor for English and Dutch.
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</li>
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<li>
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The GPL'ed
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgloss/">
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JGloss</a>
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says this about itself: "JGloss lets you import Japanese text
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documents and add reading and translation annotations for words,
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both automatically during import, and manually. It is written in
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Java."
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</li>
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<li>
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Potala Software's <a
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href="http://home.alamedanet.net/~tibet/udp/">UDP</a> is
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freeware that integrates with Jskad's ACIP converters.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Finally, the
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<a href="http://epidoc.sourceforge.net/">
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EpiDoc</a>
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project (hosted by SourceForge) does not yet have any tools up, but
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the project's goals are similar in many ways to the THDL's, and they
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list their programming language as Java. The blurb of interest:
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"The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing a software and
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hardware-independent digital publication and interchange
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specification for scholarly and educational editions of inscribed
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and incised texts in Greek, Latin and other ancient languages".
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</p>
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<p>
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Please
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<a href="mailto:thdltools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">
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e-mail us</a>
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your comments about this page.
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The
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<a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/thdltools">
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THDL Tools</a>
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project is generously hosted by:
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