Dear Kam Leong and Piya,

thank you. Yes, the CPD is now online, it is still a work in progress, with plans to complete Volume 3 by reaching the end of letter K.

http://pali.hum.ku.dk/cpd/intro/notice_about_development_vol3.html

The CPD is no doubt a great tribute from the international Pali scholarship.

Kam Leong, I have heard good feedback from DPR, but I have not explored the software myself. Currently, for our sutta translation exercises, I am still using CSCD3 (CD-ROM) [recently, I am moving towards ] and the online PTS PED. If I am in Singapore, I will have a collection of resources in print too. However, I believe I should "catch up" with technology too, and try out DPR and CST4.

http://www.tipitaka.org/cst4

Thanks should go to Ven. Yuttadhammo for DPR, and Frank Snow for CST4.

For those who are new, the reference collection in DPR includes

PED: Pali English Dictionary
DPPN: Dictionary of Pali Proper Names

Both from the Pali Text Society (PTS), and

CPED: Concise Pali English Dictionary by Ven. A P Buddhadatta.

It would be great to learn about progress in other works too, such as, the DOP (Dictionary of Pali) by Margaret Cone. Volume 1 of DOP ends in the letter Kh, and there is no news about any upcoming volumes on PTS website. The other would be Bhikkhu Bodhi's new translation of Anguttara Nikaya.

For my recent comments on tipitaka.net, I am only building tools mainly for the site, on the browser platform. These tools fall into three main categories:

1. general applications: e.g. Velthuis-Unicode converter
2. learning enhancement: simple XML-based tools, which I am currently working on
3. data processing: e.g. Pali Scope!

The time I spend on these is very irregular, and I do not just focus on one particular category. At the time, I am dedicating more towards improving the learning experience for new Pali students, an area which I am more familiar with since I have only recently been through it. Again, I am not going to write pages on this, but when there is some progress, I will always seek feedback from the group. I am taking a break from the more "heavy" projects, like Pali Scope!, Sutta Spectra! and also a "in-the-pipeline" Pali Scribe project. These are heavily collaborative-type projects, which I have to delay to focus on the easier tasks first.

Also, the web platform is my preference at the moment. I would only consider moving to additional platforms when I have more time, and also when I am more established, both personally (in my personal life, that is) and financially.

Btw, Kam Leong, do you do much programming? How about a simple intro of yourself?

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan wrote:

It would be really great if it could include the CPD which is also digital now.

> Perhaps we can also take some advantages from the "Digital Pali Reader" project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpali/