SIL Graphite Development Site

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This is not the official SIL Graphite site. The official SIL Graphite site is found at http://graphite.sil.org
This site is to track progress of development projects of SIL Graphite or related development projects only. It is designed for developers only. Not for end users.

News:

5/31/2005 Graphite API version 2.0 released. New source code available via Subversion: svn://scripts.sil.org/graphite/graphite/trunk
5/14/2005 SILA enabled Firefox and Thunderbird available for Windows and Linux in here
10/17/2003 Drusilla Alpha 1 Installer (the Linux version of SILA) could be found at here (based on Mozilla 1.5 and SIL Graphite 1.0)
8/15/2003Waiting for silgraphite 1.0 ? It will come SOON....
8/15/2003Linux Based Mozilla Prototype is better today....
- Drusilla display several google UTF-8 Tamil pages ( Left/Upper, Left/Lower, Right/Upper, Right/Lower ) by using Code 2000 Gr Tamil Font
- Drusilla now can show PigLatin, Stack Diac and Burmese correctly.
8/14/2003A hacky and buggy prototype of Drusilla, the Linux based Graphite and Mozilla integration, is put together by Frank Tang, see the Burmese text show on Linux desktop inside Drusilla !!! See screenshot below. The work in porgress code is tracked by mozdev bug id 4246 :
- The prototype use the PigLatin font to display all the Mozilla user interface and web pages:
7/26/2003 XftHelloWorld, a simple demo app on Linux which basee on silgraphite Linux port, show Pig Latin and Burmese on Linux !!! This sample application is put together by Dan Glassey and other silgraphite Linux team members.
7/23/2003 Linux build instruction is updated.
7/3/2003 silgraphite Linux build passed the Perl build test suite on the tip now !
6/26/2003 silgraphite Windows port is intergrated with Mozilla 1.4 on Windows!. See sila.mozdev.org for details

Vision:

We want to see major computer platforms support the display of text for all scripts (writing systems) that are still daily used by some people on earth.

major computer platforms (in 2003) mean Windows, Linux and MacOS X. The list may grow
display of text mean it does not deal with text input or display of pictures/image/voice
all scripts (writing systems) mean it is used for write human languages
daily used mean we don't deal with ancient scripts
some people mean more than three human being
in the earth mean we don't deal with fake languages invented by science fiction movies such as Star Trek

Why SIL Graphite?

There are many complex scripts (writing system) that are currently daily used by many many people. A lot of these people do not live in a high economic environment now. Most of the commercial companies will not invest to support these writing systems into their operating systems/applications. SIL Graphite is designed to fill that hole.
SIL Graphite gives the font designer a way to decide the text rendering behaviour without the need to modify the source code of application software. This means that once an operating system/technology/application is Graphite enabled, a language researcher can design their writing system in a jungle without heavy communication with the developers of all these software packages. This is very important since most of the under developed writing system are currently isolated in some areas which lack good communication facilities. This does NOT imply those writing system researchers do not have the responsibility to publish their research.

How to communicate with other SIL Graphite developers?

Current source code (API version 2.0) available from our Subversion server
Official Graphite site for released binaries is at http://graphite.sil.org
Find out sourceforge.net information (cvs, bugs, mailling list, developers) about silgraphite at http://sourceforge.net/projects/silgraphite This site tracks the "on-progress" information
You can contact people on the devlist by posting to the development list at silgraphite-devel on lists.sf.net.
On the offchance anyone is around there is an IRC channel #silgraphite on irc.freenode.net