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Pub2SDwizard

A tool for publishing MP3 files on SD cards. Why use Pub2SDwizard? Just copying your MP3 files on to an SD card is easy enough, but:
  • What order do you wish them to play in?
    • Since different devices and applications will sort them in different ways, how do you force them to play in the order you desire? - While a simple radio can play files from SD cards or USB sticks, the files will probably be sorted and played solely on their filenames. But mobile phones may sort the files on their creation or last modified date or other embedded metadata tags. Which tags are used will
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PDF Booklet

PDF Booklet opens a PDF file and creates a new one that can be printed as a booklet.  It has many functions for manipulating the pages of a PDF file.  PDF Booklet can scale the pages so that they can be printed on a different page size. You can adjust the margins, add blank pages and print multiple booklets in one run. If you wish to create an A5 booklet that is printed on A4 paper and folded PDF Booklet can arrange the pages so that they are printed with the last and first page on the same sheet. It's simple then to fold and staple to produce a booklet.  However if you have a book, with many...

Font Development Tools

SIL Font developers have produced a number of utilities for viewing, modifying and developing fonts; that other font developers may find useful.

Graphite

Graphite is a toolkit for developing "smart fonts" for complex scripts where the placement, order or selection of glyphs needs to adapt to the context. 

SIL ViewGlyph

ViewGlyph is a utility that displays the glyphs contained in a font, as well as certain metrics and the contents of tables (such as name and cmap) within the font. 

Use PC-PATR with FLEx

A tool to use a PC-PATR grammar to (morphologically) disambiguate texts in FLEx. Use PC-PATR with FLEx is a tool that can use a PC-PATR grammar to disambiguate a text or a portion of a text that has been analyzed in a FieldWorks Language Explorer project. You tell Use PC-PATR with FLEx the PC-PATR grammar file to use. Then you can choose a text or a portion of that text and ask Use PC-PATR with FLEx to try and disambiguate it. Use PC-PATR with FLEx is compatible with version 9.0.4 Beta or higher of FLEx. While you can use any PC-PATR...

Keyman Engine

Build a fully branded and customised desktop keyboarding product for your platform to fit the exact needs of your language, community or organization with the Keyman Engine. Or add a custom virtual keyboard to your existing application. 

Flashgrid

Flashgrid is a plugin for Fieldworks which extracts lexemes and creates flashcards for use with ANKI. It was developed by the late Jonathan Coombs. This is very helpful for language learning.

Alpha Tiles

Build literacy game apps for Android devices. Apps do not require an Internet connection for play. Most language development teams prepare the build files and forward them to the author for app creation. Collaboration occurs in a Google Drive. Language teams fill out a Google Sheets template with eight tabs (one for each data file required by the app). Language teams also upload one .mp3 audio file and one .jpg or .png image file for each word in their word list. The author uploads trial apps to the shared folder. It is also an option to use the source code (available at github.com/AlphaTiles...