Re: Project Pali Scope: The Online Pali Lexicordance!

Dear Walter and friends,

thanks for your questions and suggestions.

I appreciate your generous offer of a domain name. However, there is
no plan to have a separate domain now. Pali Scope will be an integral
part of Tipitaka Network. I have missed out the URL for the project
earlier, here it is:

http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/scope/

Thanks also for your interest of participation. I am still exploring
the various options available for the development, although it would
highly likely be MySQL with PHP, Perl or Python.

Your idea of 'multi-script' is fascinating, and is something I wanted
to add to the list too.

Those who like to register their interest in project development may
forward their names and areas of interest offlist, if they do not
wish to join this discussion. There are a couple of planning issues
to be sorted out before development commences. When that is done, I
shall contact everyone personally with further information.

In the meantime, general updates of the project would be made through
this list, and may also be available on Tipitaka Network.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Walter Stanish wrote:

I'd love to participate in development. What kind of programming
language / database system were you planning to use?

For web-based projects I usually use PHP/MySQL, though I can also
program in Perl and would like an excuse to learn Python.

I'd be particularly interested to have a go at implementing
a 'multiscript' view - ie: allowing a user to view the same Pali text
in a variety of Asian scripts. Mostly this should be fairly
straightforward, though I suppose there's probably a few special code
sequences for various rare glyphs that might require some specialised
rules.

Also, I happen to have recently registered for a 'three-domain'
package on a new hosting provider, and have a spare domain
remaining. As such I'm happy to pay for the domain name and pay
hosting costs for the project, if there is adequate interest in
proceeding. If the group agrees on a domain name then I'm happy to
register it immediately. paliscope.org?