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