Hi!

I have release 2.0 of Palitrans "ready" and I was wondering if anyone would
like to help me test it.

This is a very big improvement over Palitrans 1.0.

a) it looks more like MS-Word and supports bold, italic, underline, etc
b) it supports 5 Pali fonts
c) it has "in-place" font conversion - select some text using a Pali font,
press a button, select a new Pali font and the font is converted.
d) it can produce "code tables" for *any* font showing the numerical code
and the character
e) you can create customizable transliteration tables for *any* font
f) the file is saved as "rtf"
g) You can mix fonts - ie enter your English text in one font and your Pali
text in a different font - switching between them "on-the-fly" at the touch
of a button.
h) supports colored text - ie you can have your English text in one color
and your Pali font in a different color.
i) very simple print preview and printing capability.
j) much better "cut-and-paste" support

On top of that, you can load a "transliteration table" that supports 12
western languages - in case you work need to use one/several/any combination
of the following languages in a document: English, Spanish, Italian, French,
German, Portuguese, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Gaelic
/Modern Gaelic (Irish and Scottish). This makes it very easy to enter
any/all of these languages using one keyboard.

And note: you can customize the transliteration tables, so it doesn't really
matter what language your "native language" keyboard is using.

About customizable transliteration tables: A good example of a "customized
use" would be Sinhalese/English or Sinhalese/French.

If you would like to test it (either for Pali studies or general purpose
language studies), please send me an email at:
721910352@...

And note: because the software can do so much, the interface to parts of the
software can seem a bit strange to a person who doesn't understand how
fonts/international computers/word processors work.

However, if all you want to do is create a simple Western text, "special
font text" or Pali text, the software and interface is very simple.

peace from

Andy





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