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...from pg. 185, The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1, Appendix 7:

V. The aggregate of forms can be divided into fifteen:

1-4. The four causal forms, which are the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind.

5-9. The five sense objects of visual form, sound, smell, taste, and texture.

10-14. The five sense faculties of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body.

15. Imperceptible form. RY

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-This article describes how to install the required software in order to be able to display and edit texts encoded in [[Tibetan Unicode]]
+...from pg. 185, [[The Light of Wisdom]], Vol. 1, Appendix 7:
-==Overview==
-In order to be able to view and edit Tibetan texts encoded in [[Tibetan Unicode]] you need three components:
-* A operating system that supports displaying ''complex scripts''.
+V. The aggregate of forms can be divided into fifteen:
-* [[Tibetan Fonts]] in Unicode format
-* A [[Tibetan Input Method]]
-One of the major advantages of Unicode is that Unicode applications do not need to understand the rules how to create glyphs for a given language. The actual knowhow how to create Tibetan stacks resides within the unicode font and the ''complex script'' support of the operating system.
+*1-4. The [[four causal forms]], which are the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind.
-Once all three components above are available, standard Unicode applications can be used to create, edit and display Tibetan texts.
+*5-9. The [[five sense objects]] of visual form, sound, smell, taste, and texture.
-A particularly useful Unicode application is [http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice]. OpenOffice 2.1 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac (see http://www.neooffice.org and comments below) so Unicode documents created with OpenOffice can efficiently be shared across platforms. ''See also:'' [[Configuring OpenOffice for Tibetan script]].
+*10-14. The [[five sense faculties]] of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body.
-Use the [[Tibetan Unicode Test Page]] to verify your installation.
+*15. Imperceptible form. [[RY]]
-==Unicode enabling Windows XP==
-===Enabling complex script support===
-Microsoft Windows XP supports complex scripts, the feature to correctly display  Tibetan stacks, only with Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 and later (also available with Microsoft's free [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF Word Viewer] ). However it is possible to install support for Tibetan complex scripts for all applications (e.g. Web browsers and OpenOffice).
-An excellent description how to update Windows XP can be found at
-[http://www.thdl.org/xml/showEssay.php?xml=/tools/fonts/unicode-explain-eng.xml THDL].
-===Installing Unicode fonts===
-Simply install one of the Unicode [[Tibetan Fonts]].
-A good start is
-[http://www.thdl.org/tools/fonts/tibfonts.php?l=uva10928423419921 Tibetan Machine Uni] or Jomolhari [http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibetan/fonts/jomolhari.html|Jomolhari]
-===Installing a Tibetan input method===
-Again, [http://www.thdl.org/tools/input.html THDL] gives a comprehensive overview on different existing [Tibetan Input Methods].
-A good start is [http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ Keyman]. [http://www.tavultesoft.com/ Tavultesoft] offers a version that is free for home use.
-A number of different keyboards including a Wylie keyboard are available from [http://www.tibetanportal.com/ Tibetan Portal], download [http://www.tibetanportal.com/TibetanUnicodeKeyboards1_8.zip Keyman keyboards].
-==Unicode enabling Windows Vista==
-No software needs to be installed: Windows Vista already contains all three required components: an input method (see Control Panel / Regional and Language settings for a Tibetan keyboard), support to display Tibetan script and a Tibetan font, Microsoft Himalaya.
-In addition you might want to install additional [[Tibetan Fonts]] (all existing Unicode fonts seem to work well) or an alternative [[Tibetan Input Method]].
-You can directly start using Notepad, OpenOffice or the latest Microsoft Office version to create Tibetan documents in standard Unicode encoding.
-==Unicode enabling Linux==
-===Enabling complex script support===
-If you use a recent version of Gnome, all applications that support [http://www.pango.org/ Pango], correctly display Tibetan complex script.
-===Installing Unicode fonts===
-Any of the Unicode [[Tibetan Fonts]] works. Also for Linux, the recommended font is
-[http://www.thdl.org/tools/fonts/tibfonts.php?l=uva10928423419921 Tibetan Machine Uni].
-===Installing a Tibetan input method===
-The package [http://uim.freedesktop.org/ UIM] contains an input method bo-wylie which adds a Wylie keyboard. The Dzongkha XKB keyboard layout in XFree-86 can also be used
-==Unicode enabling Mac OS-X==
-Mac OS-X uses a different way to render scripts. Support for complex scripts started to appear with version 10.4.8 in Mac OS-X. However unfortunately most existing fonts use OpenType features, that are not correctly supported with current versions of Mac OS-X. Even with a [[Tibetan Input Method]], support for Mac Unicode is currently weak. A key to enable Mac OS-X would be a [[Platform Independent Tibetan Unicode Font]].
-[[Configuring OpenOffice for Tibetan script|Open Office]] can also be used for Tibetan on Mac OSX (currently [http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/x11.html under XII Windowing system] though a native "Aqua version is under development). Since OpenOffice uses ICU for OpenType layout fonts like Tibetan Machine Uni and Jomolhari work properly.
-==Additional helpful tools==
-A number of [[Tibetan Text Editors]] and [[Font Conversion Programs]] are available mainly for Windows that can be used to convert existing legacy documents in various different Tibetan encodings of the pre-Unicode era.
-[[Category:Resources]]
-[[Category:Tibetan Software]]

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