The app “WordCreator” does basic word and letter frequency counts as well as a couple of other interesting things which grass-roots literacy workers or primer developers may need when designing curriculum for unwritten languages.
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Brief survey of tools for digital learning
At the time of this writing, the world has experienced some major disruptions due to an outbreak of a viral disease labeled “COVID-19”. Apart from…
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Windows Phonetic Keyboards for Indic Languages
It’s great to see that you can now use simple “type as it sounds”, phonetic keyboards with Indic languages (which include Nepali) on Windows, in…
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Santali Roman Keyboard
To type Santali using roman letters (with diacritics) download and install this file. Installation Download and open the zip archive Copy the “exe” file to…
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Handy Linux Software
Cerebro If you’re a Mac user, you’ve probably come to know and love Spotlight. Cerebro is off to a good start providing some of that…
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Automatically Trace your Photos using Inkscape
A while back I got a chance to see a well-trained DTP artist in action. This man was using Adobe Illustrator like a pro, turning…
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Type Indian Languages on Linux using KMFL
This article is not so much for “mainstream” multilingual typists1. Here we discuss flexible typing systems for those working in non-standard languages. For those of…
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BookMali can also export PDFs for print
These stories … …can take various forms, as per requirement, such as chapter books Big Books … and pocket books, popular with kids and teachers!…
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BookMali can also export flipbooks for your website
Here is what the “webfolder export” looks like when uploaded to Splashbooks.org On mobile devices, each of the pages is “flickable”, just like a paper…
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Separate your data from your (Linux) operating system
On Linux, occasionally things do go wrong. (Lately, changing a display driver caused my system to hang, and I didn’t have the spare time to…