35 Are there Sinhala/Tamil word/text processors?
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This article is from the Sri Lanka FAQ, by Prasad Dharmasena dharma@eng.umd.edu with numerous contributions by others.
35 Are there Sinhala/Tamil word/text processors?
[ See note under <34> ]
With the Mac fonts, any Mac word/text processor can become a Sinhala/
Tamil word processor, instantly. See <23> and <24>. {same is true of
PCs and TrueType fonts???}
WadanTharuwa
Computing Services Center
Inst. Comp. Studies, U of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Tel: (1)581245
Contact: S.T. Nandasara
Dot Matrix - 24pin (Rs. 20,000
Laser (Being developed)
E-mail: <stn@ict.ac.lk>
WordPower
S.P. Mahanama
145/1 Gramasanwardena Rd
Polwatte, Pannipitiya
Sri Lanka
Laser version: Rs. 20,000
Tel: (72)46918
Thibasa
Dynamic Ramy, Haylese Group
Poster Lane, Deans Road
Colombo 10, Sri Lanka
Developed by IFS (?)
Laser: Rs. 25,000
Dot Matrix: Rs. 18,000
Tel: (1)699087, 699100
Super Bits
IFS (e-mail @ifs.ac.lk)
Hantana Road
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Tel: +94(08)32002
Created by:
Sampath Godamunne
Vipula Jayampathi
Rohan Manamudali
Dhammika Wijeratne
ADAMI94.ZIP - Tamil word processer for MSDOS (IBMPC)
The package is shareware requiring a registration fee. It is available
on the following site as well as other Simtel mirror sites.
For a list of Simtel mirror sites, check MSDOS FTP documents.
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/editor/adami94.zip
Pulavan - For PCs 386 and up. Developed by Dr. Vasu Renganathan
(vasu@u.washington.edu) at U Washington. It is a Tamil Teaching,
Learning, Translating software. There is a translation software
which translates a restricted number of sentence types from English
to Tamil. Source is available.
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/tamil/pulavan/
PCTAMIL - Transliteration tool for PCs. PC based programs in this
package can beused for reading Romanized Tamil text in Tamil script.
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/editor/pctamil1.zip
Thiru 1.0 - A WYSWYG DOS editor in Romanized Tamil. Use this program to
create, edit and print texts in Tamil script. The tamil words are entered
in the Romanized Tamil convention. [K. Srinivasan <srini@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>]
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/simtel/msdos/txtutl/
ftp://archive.orst.edu/pub/mirrors/simtel/msdos/txtutl/
Visual Tamil - Learn Tamil and Tamil culture of TamilNadu. graphics,
animation and sound. Windows 3.1 product. $35.
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San Jose, CA 95136
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