Re: Step by step to using Pali resources

Dear Tadao,

It's good to see you back online again.

> Hi, Jim:
> Thank you for the information.
> The software you've  mentioned is for PC.
> Do you think it works for Mac too?
> tadao

I don't think the PaliTrans program will work on the Mac. It has long been
my understanding that a program written for the PC won't work on a Mac and
vice versa. There is a free program written for the Mac which can be found
on the following webpage: http://www.fsnow.com/pali/ that may be of interest
to you. Information about what the program does and other details will be
found there.

A text conversion program basically carries out a series of search and
replace commands with just a few keystrokes to initiate the process. In the
absence of such a program you can do the same thing manually (which is time
consuming) by searching and replacing all the same characters with one that
is readable on your machine. In a Pali text without capitals you may have to
repeat this procedure ten times. If your wordprocessor has a macro editor
you should be able to write a mini-program that will do all this work for
you.

Jim


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