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| [[Category:Tibetan Software]]
| | *'''Instructions, samples & templates''' can be found '''[[Editing Instructions|here]]''' |
| == Unicode Editors ==
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| One of the major advantages of the [http://www.unicode.org/ Unicode] is platform independence. If an Operating System supports Unicode character encoding, a [[Tibetan Input Method]] and is able to display complex scripts, all applications taking advantage of these services should be able to edit and display Tibetan text.
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| See [[Tibetan Unicode Installation]] on how to enable existing standard word processors (Microsoft Office or OpenOffice) for Tibetan.
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| For other platforms (e.g. older Windows versions), specialized Tibetan Editors have been created.
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| Another advantage of using the Unicode Standard for Tibetan text for is that it allows Tibetan text to be properly indexed and searched by standard search engines.
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| === [http://udp.leighb.com UDP] - The Unicode Document Processor for Tibetan ===
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| UDP is a stand-alone document processing program that works with European, Tibetan, Dzongkha and many other languages in the Win/98/ME and Win/NT/2000/XP environments.
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| UDP reads a large number of legacy document and font formats and can convert them to [[Tibetan Unicode]].
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| UDP is one of the most useful tools to convert TibetDoc or RTF documents encoded in legacy fonts into standard [[Tibetan Unicode]]
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| * License: free software
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| * Web Page: http://udp.leighb.com/
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| * Platform: Windows
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| === [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html BabelPad] - Unicode Text Editor for Windows ===
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| BabelPad is a Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
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| BabelPad supports many different languages including Tibetan.
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| * License: free software
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| * Web Page: http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html
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| * Platform: Windows
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| == Legacy Font Formats ==
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| Legacy Editors were created before the [[Tibetan Unicode]] standard existed. During those times, proprietary font formats were the only way to edit texts in Tibetan fonts. Unfortunately a chaotic number of variants of proprietary encoding schemes for [[Tibetan Fonts]] was created in the early days of Tibetan text processing. A number of [[Font Conversion Programs]] address this problem.
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| === [http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/tdoca.htm TibetDoc] ===
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| One of the earliest and most well known of the non-Unicode Tibetan text editors. TibetDoc and fonts from [http://www.tibet.dk/tcc TCC] are used in many productions of Tibetan texts. Since version 5.1 TibetDoc supports exporting to RTF / Unicode. (Tested with TibetDoc version 5.102.)
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| * License: Commercial
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| * Web Page: http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/tdoca.htm
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| * Platform: Windows
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