Thank you for downloading Monlam Bodyig 3. To install Monlam Bodyig 3 on to your computer, please follow these simple steps. It is much easier than you think. Open the folder called 'Monlam Bodyig 3 for Mac OS X' 2(a). Open the 'Fonts' folder and copy or drag all the fonts in the folder - except 'Monlam Uni Sans Serif' - into. Download Monlam Bodyig Tibetan font set up for Mac OS and Windows - imechemi/monlam-bodyig.
Introduction
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This site provides a common place to obtain all free Unicodekeyboards and input methods (aka IMs or IMEs) for enterring Tibetantext. Font-based legacy input methods are not included because I’m sotired of receiving documents from people who don’t know better andtrying to convert them to something I can read. If you really needlegacy input methods/keyboards you can obtain them fromthe THDLwebsite, Lobsang Monlam’ssite, etc.
དྲ་ངོས་འདི་ནི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཚད་ལྡན་ “Unicode” བོད་ཡིག་གི་མཐེབ་གཞོང་དང་ནང་བླུག་ཐབས་ཤེས་༼IM དང་ IME ཟེར་མཁན་༽ བབ་ལེན་ས་ཡོད། འདི་ན་རྣམ་གྲངས་རྙིང་པའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་མཐེབ་གཞོང་མེད། དེ་དགོས་ན་ THDLདང་ སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་དྲ་ངོས་ དེ་སོགས་ནས་ལེན་ཐུབ་ས་རེད།
For Windows 2000/XP/Vista
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- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for Windows 2000/XP/etc., created with MSKLC by RichFelker (me). Untested, might need minor fixes. This is not needed ifyou have Windows Vista; it’s included with the OS. Documentation onthis layout can befound inEnglishand inTibetan at Tashi Tsering’s site.
- Dzongkha layout keyboard created withMSKLC by Chris Fynn.
- TISE, which allows you to enter Tibetantext by typing the Wylie [EWTS] transliteration.See official sitehere.
- Sambhota 1 work-alike keyboard byChris Walker. This is NOT the Sambhota software but rather a keyboardwhich enables one to enter Unicode Tibetan using the layout familiarto Sambhota users. Before using this you must first install “Keyman”.The free version seems to have been discontinued and no longeravailablefrom Tavultesoft,but LanguageGeek.com has anold version availablefor download.
- Sambhota 2 work-alike keyboard byChris Walker. Just like the above, this needs Keyman installedfirst.
- Monlam Bod-yig v2 — is this really a Unicode keyboard or not?
For X Window System (Linux/BSD/*nix)
- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for the X Window System, using XKB, by Rich Felker (me).Install it as bo (with no extension)in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols (location may vary onold/strange systems) and activate with the setxkbmap commandor your favorite graphical XKB configuration program. Newer versionsof X.org will include this keyboard in the standard distribution, butunder a different name: cn(tib).
- Dzongkha keyboard layout for X WindowSystem/XKB. You do not need to download this file unless you’recurious to read it; it has been included in the standard X.orgdistribution for a long time.
- UIM, through m17n-lib, makes various Tibetan input methodsavailable, but installation is OS- and distribution-specific. Use yoursystem’s package manager if you want to install these input methods.Beware that (as of Summer 2007) m17n-lib’s notion of what is “Wylie”is rather incorrect and probably not what you expect.
For Linux Console
- Tibetan Standard (Windows Vista/CNS)keyboard for the Linux console, by Rich Felker (me). Loadusing loadkeys; the Caps_Lock key switches betweenwhatever your original layout was (US or other Latin-based keyboard)and Tibetan. Note that this is probably not useful unless you have aconsole terminal capable of displaying Tibetan, suchas uuterm.
For Macintosh
The following are for MacOS X (and later?). If you’re using anolder Mac there’s really no hope of communicating with UnicodeTibetan.
- Wylie and Dzongkha layoutkeyboard/IM, by Chris Walker. Visitthe officialsite for instructions in both English and Tibetan.
Sadly there seem to be no other layouts (Standard, TCRC, Sambhota,etc.) available for Mac.
Documentation
Most Tibetan keyboards have incomplete or no documentationavailable on the web. I will eventually fill in this section as I finddocumentation on the layouts I’m not yet familiar with.
Links
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These other sites may be useful to visitors attempting to obtainTibetan input software:
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Contact
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My name is Rich Felker and you can reach me by email [email protected]. Please feel free to write if you have questions onusing the above software. If you write in Tibetan, PLEASE use Unicode,otherwise I probably will not be able to read your message.
ངའི་མིང་ལ་Rich Felker ཟེར་གི་ཡོད། གློག་འཕྲིན་གྱི་ཁ་བྱང་ [email protected] རེད།མཉན་ཆས་འདི་སྐོར་དྲིས་བ་ཡོད་ན་ང་ལ་འཕྲིན་པ་བསྐུར་གནང། ཡིན་ནའང་ Unicode བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ངས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འཕྲིན་པ་ཀློག་ཐུབ་ས་མ་རེད།
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Tibetan Input Tools for Windows
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Simply having a Tibetan font does not mean that you can now use Tibetan in a computer. You also need a keyboard or input mechanism to efficiently type in Tibetan, and you also need that input mechanism to work with the various types of software you typically use. One of the problems concerning the use of Tibetan fonts in digital contexts has been the limited and non-standard nature of Tibetan script input tools and software. Usually keyboards are also platform-specific, so that they only work for Windows, Mac, or Macintosh. This page is focused on the Windows operating system and on solutions that work with Unicode Tibetan fonts. To read about the general methods of Tibetan keyboards – such as Wylie, Sambhota, etc. – please see Tibetan Input System Principles. For input tools in other operating system environments, see Tibetan Input Tools for Linux, Tibetan Input Tools for Macintosh, and Tibetan Input Tools for Browsers or Cross-Platform. For a survey of pre-Unicode Windows input systems for Tibetan, see Legacy Tibetan Input Methods for Windows. To read about using Tibetan Unicode in Windows in general, see Using Tibetan in Windows.
Tise: Tibetan Wylie Input Utility
Tise (pronounced 'tee-say') is an Unicode Tibetan input utility for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 developed by Gregory Mokhin and based upon the EWTS Transliteration System. Tise intercepts user input and converts EWTS sequences into proper codes for Tibetan text to be displayed using a Unicode Opentype Tibetan font. Tise works in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7; it also works in Windows 8 and 10, though we have not tested these. There is also a 32-bit version that works in XP. Tise is available for free download (58 KB, v. 2.0, built 20 Nov 2012). Before using Tise you will need to unzip tise.zip archive into a directory of your choice and install a Tibetan Unicode OpenType font, for example, Tibetan Machine Uni, licensed under GPL. Make sure that Arial Unicode font is not installed, otherwise it will interfere with proper operation of Tibetan Machine Uni font. For detailed instructions refer to readme.txt, available online and also included in the zip archive.
For more information as well as downloads, see the Tise home page.
Wylie Word: A Word for Windows Accessory
Wylie Word is a Microsoft Word for Windows template containing macros that allow one to enter Tibetan script directly into a Word document, as well as convert transliteration to Tibetan script or Tibetan script to transliteration. The macro runs on Windows 95+ machines with Word 2000 or later. There is presently no Macintosh version available. The latest version, 2.1 beta, allows for the entry of Unicode Tibetan using EWTS Transliteration System. Tibetan transliteration is converted in block or as one types. The earlier versions produce Tibetan only in the legacy Tibetan Machine Web font.
Specific features of WylieWord (versions 2.0+) include:
- Works in Windows 7 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems.
- Easy-to-use installer
- Allows entry of Unicode Tibetan (only version 2.1 beta)
- Fully compatible with mouse (unlike version 1.0)
- Easily edit mixed Tibetan/English text
- Easily type Tibetan punctuation and Sanskrit stacks
- Convert Wylie transliterations to Tibetan script and vice versa
- Search for Tibetan text
- Produce pronunciations from Tibetan script or Wylie
- 'Interlineal mode' helps create aligned translation texts, with Tibetan, Wylie, and pronunciation produced automatically. This is useful for language learning and for preparing liturgy for use by non-Tibetan-speakers.
- Facility for easily entering Unicode Latin diacritics; this is useful in Sanskrit transliterations.
For further information as well as downloads, see the Wylie Word homepage.
This input systems works in Windows 7 64-bit as well as 32-bit. It works much the same way Tise does. Documentation and download from Denjong TibType
Jskad (pronounce 'jay-gay') is a java-based text editor for working with Tibetan text. It also contains a converter for switching between formats such as transliteration to Unicode or from earlier legacy fonts to Unicode and back. For further information as well as downloads, see the Jskad Editor homepage.
Dzongkha Unicode Keyboard for Windows XP
A system keyboard designed for Windows XP that allows for the entry of Tibetan or Dzongkha text through using a standard Bhutanese layout. The keyboard was created by Chris Fynn, using Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator or MSKLC. It comes in a self-installing file. Once installed, the keyboard can be assigned to any language that is not used on one's machine, such as possibly 'Faroese' or 'Kokani'. The keyboard is then activated by switching to that language through the language-bar. The installer, keymap, and source files are available at Dzongkha Unicode Keyboard .
For further information as well as downloads, see the Dzongkha Unicode Keyboard homepage. As the Dzongkha keyboard can be installed as a system keyboard, you can see detailed installation instructions at Installing a Tibetan system keyboard in Windows XP (Tibetan version of this document available at Installing a Tibetan system keyboard in Windows XP in Tibetan).
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Keyman Keyboards (Unicode and Tibetan Machine)
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Chris Walker has created a series of keyboards for entering Tibetan script in Windows applications. The keyboards use Tavultesoft Keyman and are available at Tavultesoft. Installation is simple, and the keyboards can be invoked either through a keyboard shortcut or an icon. These keyboards enable the user to enter Tibetan using either a Unicode Tibetan font or the Tibetan Machine font. The following two keyboard layouts are available for Unicode:
- Sambhota Keymap #1
- THL Extended Wylie
For further information on and downloads of Chris Walker’s keyboards, click Keyman.
Another set of Keyman Keyboards for entering Unicode Tibetan has been made available by Peter Hauer from Linguasoft. Go here for further information on and download of Peter Hauer’s keyboards.
In order to use any of these keyboards, the proper Tibetan font needs to be installed. See our THL Toolbox Fonts Page. One can also view descriptions of: