Re: Digital Pali Reader

From: Bryan Levman
Message: 4973
Date: 2017-12-14

Dear All,

Thanks for all your responses. I have installed Waterfox and as Kare suggested, it seems to work fine.

I also discovered another version of Firefox with which DPR works called Firefox ESR 52.5.2. It was apparently devised for just this  kind of situation, to be compatible with past add-ons/extensions, so as not to make them obsolete

So no need to worry Ven. Yuttadhammo!

Mark, thanks for all the references to the different canons, and the thanks Ven. Pandita for the reference to Pale Moon and Petra re: Textwrangler

Best wishes,

Bryan


On Thursday, December 14, 2017, 10:27:24 AM EST, Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu yuttadhammo@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

Thanks Kåre! I'll look into getting something like Waterfox on Linux, then :)

On Dec 14, 2017 10:21 AM, "'Kåre A. Lie' alberlie@... [palistudy]" <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Do not worry, Bhante. DPR runs like a dream in Waterfox (and other browsers), so there is no problem.

Thank you for your valuable work!

Mettaya

Kåre


Den 14.12.2017 15.23, skreiv Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu yuttadhammo@... [palistudy]:
 
I'm really sorry about the DPR problem... I've received multiple emails and even a phone call! asking if I was aware it no longer worked. I'm well aware, I used it myself regularly. I'm (foolishly perhaps) still trying to finish a secular degree in religious studies, so my time and energy are limited. 

More importantly, I don't really have the programming skills to create a polished stand alone version of the DPR. I've created a makeshift version that should run in most modern browsers, however, and it's here:


Or the online version:


No promises, but I hope to have search functionality working sometime in the new year. Maybe i can work on it over the winter break.

Peace,

Yuttadhammo

On Dec 14, 2017 4:09 AM, "Mark Allon mark.allon@... [palistudy]" <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Dear Bryan,

 

I downloaded the CSCD from http://www.tipitaka.org/ onto my PC HD, both desktop and laptop, and find it quite fast.

 

Regarding the PTS editions, the Dhammakaya produced a CD-ROM of them some years ago Pali Text Version 1.0 (Khlong Luang: Dhammakaya Foundation, 2006[?]), which had quite a few errors (I wrote a review of it). They were working on a second edition but think that was shelved in the light of their producing an edition of the Tipiṭaka.

 

Mahidol University produced a CD-ROM of the Thai Syamraṭṭha edition in 1997, but you must buy that: Budsir IV for Windows: A Digital Edition of Buddhist Scriptures (Bangkok: Mahidol University Computing Center, 1997) http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsi r/budsir-main.html.

 

The Sri Lankan Buddha Jayanti Tripiṭaka edition of Pali texts is available from several sites, e.g. http://www.accesstoinsight.org /tipitaka/sltp/index.html

There was an issue in the past with it containing many errors. Don’t know what it is like now.

 

SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net/) based its e-versions on the World Tipiṭaka Edition, which is no longer available online it seems. Think the latter was based on the Be CS.

 

Of course, all e-versions should be checked against the printed versions.

 

Pdfs of the Sri Lankan editions are available:

 

Buddha Jayanti Tipiṭaka Series:

http://www.sjp.ac.lk/news/down load-theravada-tripitaka/

 

Simon Hewavitarane Bequest editions:

http://dharma-records.buddhasa sana.net/texts/complete-pali- commentaries-in-sinhala- script-published

 

Scans of the Be used to be available, but I cannot now find the link.

 

Scans of the Thai King Chulalongkorn are available on archive.org, e.g. https://archive.org/details/ti pitaka15banguoft

(see https://standrewsrarebooks.wor dpress.com/2012/06/20/catalogu ing-efforts-uncover-a-royal- gift-to-the-university-of-st- andrews-from-the-king-of-siam- in-1896/)

 

Don’t think scans of the other Thai editions are publically available.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Regards

Mark

 

 

From: palistudy@yahoogroups.com [mailto:palistudy@... com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2017 4:14 AM
To: Pali Study Group
Subject: [palistudy] Digital Pali Reader

 




Dear Pali Friends,

 

Digital Pali Reader no longer works with Firefox and I'm wondering what digital programs you are all using to read the canon and commentaries? I do have a version (4) of the Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka but the search engine on it is very slow and it only has one dictionary. I wonder if anyone has anything better and whether the PTS or Sri Lankan canon is available digitally (including of course the commentaries and tikas),

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Best wishes,

 

Bryan

 

 





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mvh
Kåre



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