Text formats used in Shechen Input Project

Each text is made available in the following formats:

Tibet Machine and Tibet Machine Web fonts can both be obtained for free from THDL. Tibet Machine only works in Windows, while Tibet Machine Web can be viewed in Windows and Mac OS.

Tibet Doc is copyrighted and commerical software sold by Tibetan Computing Company (http://tibet.dk/tcc/).

RTF files can be opened in most Word Processors, such as Microsoft Word. Zipped files are compressed to make them easier to download, but need to be "uncompressed" after download. On Windows machine, "winzip" is a free software that will unzip the files, while on the Mac any standard unzipping or unstuffing application should work.

Please note that these texts lack any specific formatting into elecronic pages, or sections and the like. Our objective is to solicit scholarly assistance in marking these texts up to insert the outlined sections (sa bcad), mark citations, format verse and so forth. These marked up texts will then be made available on the site for others and eventually form a searchable repository. We are now working on the guidelines for doing XML markup of such literature using free tools and urge interested contributors to contact us (thdl@virginia.edu) in the meantime to obtain prototype guidelines for their use. In addition, if you contact us before you start working, you can let others know through us so that people don't waste effort by working on the same text simultaneously; likewise, someone may already be working on a text you are interested on, thereby saving you the effort. We can also then contact you with any reports of typos in the text while you are working on it.

We also request you contact us if you sight any errors in the e-versions of the text so we can correct them for everyone.