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TibetDoc is a medium-strength word-processor that directly allows word-processing
in Tibetan, English and some European languages. It has has full support for
Sanskrit Diacriticals built in, too. It has a moderate level of formatting features: margins; font sizings;
left, right, centre, and full justification; special Tibetan full justification; hidden text; vertical and
advance / glyph positioning; font colour; font highlighters; automatic page numbering; simple headers and footers;
powerful bookmark system; kerning on/off; bold/italics/underlining/strikeout; and so on. |
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Installation is EASY! Run the setup program and the program is completely installed
and configured for you. Setup time is approximately two minutes, then you
are ready to work! |
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TibetDoc reads and writes RTF files so that documents can be exported / imported to
and from most other programs, including Word. It has RTF clipboard
capability so can do direct copies and pastes to and from most other programs, including Word. |
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TibetDoc outputs to HTML and comes with a special set of public domain fonts (called TibetanMachineWeb). Thus you can make web-pages
in TibetDoc with Tibetan text and can publish those pages, with a set of Tibetan fonts as well. |
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TibetDoc
reads and writes files made with the Tibetan! version
4 software for DOS and writes WordPerfect for Windows files. This is an important feature because it gives
direct access to the thousands of volumes of Tibetan texts that have been input in Asia using our Tibetan! 4
software. These files are often easier to get than you might think. |
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TibetDoc can import and
export Tibetan Unicode text. |
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TibetDoc has a very
powerful spelling checker. It can check Tibetan and/or any other language at the same time. It can also
be made to check only words containing Sanskrit diacriticals. The spelling checker comes with a Tibetan dictionary and English
dictionary built in. Words can be added on the fly during a spelling check. A complete system for editing the spelling dictionaries is included. |
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TibetDoc
uses the same keyboard technology as all of our other programs, making
learning and changing or upgrading from our other programs very easy.
We provide two different keyboard layouts: one easy to learn and one suitable for speed typing. The latter
was produced by careful examination of the grammar of the language to make the fastest (and easiest) Tibetan
keyboard available. Furthermore, these keyboard layouts are fully customizable to the point that you can make
your own keyboard if desired. For those who want a Wylie-style keyboard, a true and very efficient Wylie
keyboard is also built-in. (Any of the several possible keyboards can be selected with a single keystroke). Note:
if you are using a non-US keyboard on your computer, simply set up and switch to a US keyboard in Windows
to make the Tibetan keyboard layouts function as expected. You can switch in and out of the US keyboard with
a keystroke.) |
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Complete
documentation consisting of nearly 200 pages of text is built into the program,
including a complete manual on how to type Tibetan. The on-line help includes Tibetan
keyboard layout maps that can be left up on the screen while learning to type. |
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The
program is built to work with our world-famous Tibetan
fonts so that you get the highest quality Tibetan fonts for use with
the program. The program comes standard with the complete Tibetan
Machine typeface and also with three Sanskrit Diacritical's fonts—
Arial, Courier, and Times Roman. All fonts are in Truetype format
so can then be used in other Window's programs, too. For even better
Tibetan typefaces than Tibetan Machine, Tibetan
Calligraphic, Tibetan Classic, and our legendary font called
Tibetan Chogyal are optionally available. |
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TibetDoc
includes converters that convert Wylie text into Tibetan text and vice versa. It also has converters
for Asian Classics Input transliteration into Tibetan text. It also has a converter for Sambhota fonts
to our TCC fonts. |
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TibetDoc
has exceptionally powerful and very fast search and search / replace capabilities. |
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TibetDoc
has a variety of features specially made for electronic publishing of texts: encryption of files so that they can
be viewed but not altered, etc., etc. |
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TibetDoc
has a press-button pecha-making system that is exceptionally powerful. All major Tibetan projects in India and Nepal
are now using this system. The same system can easily make practice texts with one line of Tibetan and one line of
some other language such as English, French, German, and so on and is popular for that purpose. |
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TibetDoc
has many special features that go with pecha making. For example, it adds rinchen spung shad automatically at the
correct positions on a line of Tibetan text. It has special, Tibetan-style, line-padding using tshegs. And there
are many other specialized features like these, too. There is no other program that even comes close to the
capabilities of TibetDoc for Tibetan publishing. |
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TibetDoc
has the special feature that any Tibetan word can be looked up on one of our electronic dictionaries just by clicking
on the word. |
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TibetDoc
has a special file searching system. It turns TibetDoc into the centre of a very powerful reference system.
The system works with all of the dictionaries and texts that we sell. We also provide free texts on our Padma
Karpo Translation Committee web-site that can be used immediately with the feature. You can add your own
reference works made in TibetDoc. You can use TibetDoc's conversion features to convert Wylie and ACIP files
into TibetDoc format and these can then be used as part of the reference system. The find system is very
fast and lists all files in which the search text has been found. These can be opened immediately in TibetDoc
even in their native format; in other words, a dictionary that is opened this way will open as a dictionary
with the TibetD interface and the dictionary can be used directly in TibetDoc. This feature really has
to be seen to be believed. It turns TibetDoc into a multifaceted software program that has extraordinary
capabilities for those engaged in Tibetan research. |
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TibetDoc
has a full-fledged hyperlink system built into it. You can create targets and links to them within a document
or links to external documents. The links and targets have a simple but effective management system built
in. You can even link to external HTML files and named references within them. To go with the hyperlinks
within documents, there is a "Go Back" through hyperlinks feature. Whenever the user clicks on a hyperlink,
the current location is added to a history list. By using the go back feature, you can return through the hyperlink
jumps. |
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TibetDoc
has a powerful bookmarking feature built into it. You can create as many bookmarks as you want and manage them
in one, easy-to-use screen. |
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TibetDoc
has a special file comparator. It allows for two files to be compared and any difference at all to be found. This is
especially useful for doing correction work during Tibetan text input/preservation but can be used for any other purpose
as well. |
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TibetDoc
lets you insert HTML tags and links into the document. These remain hidden from view (though they can be
visualized by turning on hidden text) but will be fully exported as HTML code when you choose save as
HTML. This is provided for specific needs; in general all TibetDoc formatting is fully exported when you
save a file in HTML format. As mentioned above, files saved in HTML format can be used immediately as HTML files using
the special fonts that are shipped with TibetDoc. |
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TibetDoc
has a zoom out feature that allows text to be viewed at as little as 40% of its normal size. This is especially
useful for Tibetan text preparation when very wide paper is being used. The zoom feature also works with a
wheel mouse; hold down the shift or control keys and roll the wheel of the mouse and the zooming occurs. |
