Re: Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files

The simon series are so cheap in lanka rupee.Why is the point of scanning it.Maybe I am wrong the books are all sold out.

--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...> wrote:
From: Nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...>
Subject: [palistudy] Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:36 AM











    
             Dear members,



For your information. A volunteer at the BPS has started to scan in the

Pali of the Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka. The picture files will be put as

PDFs on the internet. In this way the original text can be accessed by

scholars who know Sinhala script.

As you might already know, the typed in version which was put online

some years ago was for the most part not properly proofread.

The DN has already been scanned in. The whole Tipitaka might take quite

a while, it takes about a book a week, but after it is finished we hope

to continue with scanning in the Simon Hewawitarne

edition of the commentaries, and also the Tikas and other Pali texts

published in Sri Lanka. Some old, 19th century, editions of Pali texts

have never been reprinted and are in danger of being lost because the

books are disintegrating.

Each page is being scanned in at 200 DPI grayscale, which gives a well

readable page onscreen.



With metta,

                      Bh Nyanatusita






      

    
    



















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